How Many Species of Insects and Other Terrestrial Arthropods Are There on Earth?

By Nigel E. Stork. Annual Review of Entomology, 2018

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Sampling biases shape our view of the natural world (2020, background): “Part of the reluctance to share data in ecology comes from this discipline having evolved on a local level, before access to data became a fundamental necessity to understand and manage global diversity (Costello 2009, Stork 2018).”
A Global Perspective on Firefly Extinction Threats (2020, background): “2018), beetles have been highly successful; they represent 38% of known insect species (Stork 2018).”
Is the insect apocalypse upon us? How to find out (2020, background): “It is difficult to know what we are losing when 80% of insect species (representing, conservatively, four million species) remain undescribed and their natural histories unknown (Stork, 2018).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “Lamentably,tropical insect faunas are especially poorly known, with the vast majority yet to be named and classi fi ed (169)—many species and perhaps lineages are likely to be lost before they can be studied.”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “Considering that 50% of the world’s insect biodiversity may occur in the tropics and many tropical species remain undescribed (Stork 2018), our assessment likely underestimates the sheer biodiversity losses that occur in those regions, particularly under the onslaught on the Amazon, Central America…”
Mechanistic, ecological, and evolutionary consequences of artificial light at night for insects: review and prospective (2019, background): “Indeed, the Insecta class contains the largest number of species in Animalia (Stork, 2018), and it has colonized all terrestrial ecosystems (covering a large gradient of urbanization, latitude, .”
Insect responses to global change offer signposts for biodiversity and conservation (2020, background): “Insects are the most species-rich eukaryotic organisms (Stork, 2018; Eggleton, 2020) and are essential to Correspondence: Robert J. Wilson, Departamento de Biogeografía y Cambio Global, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), Madrid 28006 Spain.”
The Sixth Mass Extinction: fact, fiction or speculation? (2022, neutral): “The largest proportion of biodiversity comprises undescribed species (Scheffers et al ., 2012), and this problem is especially acute for invertebrates, with the proportion of undescribed insect species perhaps as high as 80% (Stork, 2018).”