From 34 species of moths to three new dinosaur species and 19 fresh coinage of control stick insect , the researcher and scientists at the Natural History Museum have described 351 new species in 2022 and given them all scientific names so they can be better protected for years to come .
Among the bumper crop of new species are a new species of gecko from the Seychelles , two humblebee from Asia , and seven mintage of frogs , including six teeny midget Mexican frogs . These frog are small than 8 mm ( 0.3 inch ) , which is less than the size of a 1p coin . No wonder we have n’t discovered them until now .
Other snazzy finds include a 35 million - yr - old mallet trammel in Ukrainianamber . It revealed that the mood in Ukraine must have been importantly meek when the mallet was buzzing around in the Late Eocene . This uncovering was part of an external research collaboration involving scientists from the Czech Republic , Latvia , Russia , Ukraine , and the United Kingdom .
Craugastor, a miniture frog species from Mexico. Image Credit: © Jeff Streicher
" We regard it important to stay together to assist one another and achieve the best possible resultant as a squad , despite the present billet [ in Ukraine ] , " explained Dr Dmitry Telnov , a Curator of beetles at the Museum in a affirmation see by IFLScience . " With this discovery we do not sort or judge any fellow worker , but transport a cleared substance to the scientific community of interests that staying joined and confirm one another is how the war can be land up . "
The group with the most young addition in 2022 is the wasp . Eighty five new specie were described and identify , sport a beautiful parasitical species with extraordinary feather - like wings . It is thought that these species might be good to the agriculture industry as they serve to parasitize the egg of thrips , which can stimulate crop damage , and could be important in understand different method of biological mastery .
" It ’s no surprise that new wasp mintage came out on top , it ’s just a surprise that wasps do n’t amount top every year , " explained Dr Gavin Broad , the Principal Curator in Charge of Insects at the Museum and an expert in Hymenoptera , the group that contain wasps . " The abundance of parasitoid white Anglo-Saxon Protestant makes the rescript Hymenoptera the most species - rich club of insects , but it is way behind some other groups in price of factual species descriptions . "
Ptilodactyla beetle preserved in amber. Image Credit: © Telnov et al., 2022
Other captivating species admit a centipede with a figure of segments that ’s never been seen by scientist before , seven species of new flies , and two polychaete insect discovered in the depths of the ocean . It ’s not just fancy newfangled animals making the list either , three new coinage of minerals were describe , 11 young species of algae both extinct and extant , and even four new species of industrial plant from across southerly Asia .
It ’s not just the Natural History Museum making discoveries of newfangled species either , check out thenew pearl oyster , doll hybrid , andfrogs with noisy belliesthat have also appear in 2022 .
New mineral Bridgesite discovered in Cumbria, United Kingdom. Image credit: © Rumsey et al., 2022
