Date: June 4, 2018
Source: University of Wyoming
University of Wyoming researchers
are shedding light on a rare aquatic beetle native only to central Wyoming.
Lusha Tronstad, lead invertebrate
zoologist with the Wyoming Natural Diversity Database, a service and research
unit housed at UW, says the narrow-footed Hygrotus diving beetle has been
petitioned for Endangered Species Act listing three times in the past 11 years
by Wild Earth Guardians, an activist group.
"We have no idea how many
there are," Tronstad says of the aquatic beetle she has studied since
2010. "We do know they have been found in 12 locations in central Wyoming
and nowhere else in the world."
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