A) Acicnemis ryukyuana, B) Acicnemis postica, C) Acicnemis azumai, D) Acicnemis exilis, E) Acicnemis maculaalba, and F) Acicnemis kiotoensis. view more Credit: OIST ...

Lewis was looking over OIST’s weevil collection when he noticed features so unique in one specimen that it potentially qualified as a new Acicnemis species. Before declaring such, Lewis reached out to ...

This bristly insect, found roaming on Japan’s subtropical islands, has just been named as a new-to-science species of beetle, Acicnemis ryukyuana. Since 2015, Jake Lewis at the Okinawa Institute ...