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There may be three times as many insect species than previously thought, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University research finds.

Most experts have currently accepted an estimate of about 6 million insect species, a figure that has stood for the last 40 years. But the new count, which used genetic information for 1.6 million individual tropical insects, a census of a highly diverse group of parasitoid wasps in Costa Rica, and statistical strategies, conservatively estimates the total number of insect species at closer to 14 to 20 million.

The study, published June 29 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, claims that a doubling or tripling of estimated insect species – already established as the most diverse group of animals – has profound implications for understanding the scale, richness, and future of biodiversity on Earth.

“We know there are many more to go, and one of the challenges is the more we sample, the more we discover,” said Laura Melissa Guzman, assistant professor in the Department of Entomology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, and the paper’s corresponding author.

“It’s a question of trying to estimate what is unobserved based on what we know.”

Read more: https://news.cornell.edu/index%2ephp/stories/2026/06/there-may-be-3-times-many-insect-species-previously-thought.

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