New BugGuide finds?

An ID Request by a brand-new contributor just gave us a new species, Larinus minutus. Also a non-native for your growing list, Beatriz.

Hanna answered some of your questions. Now, about species new to the guide, we have 1,000 species pages (although many lack images) and there are probably as many as 100,000 species of bugs in North America (a very rough estimate).
Some groups are so badly represented that you wouldn't believe it. A couple of examples: 704 species of thrips, we have only one!
1,300 species of aphids, we have 14.
These bugs are very abundant, believe it or not, there can be millions of individual aphids in just one acre.
And so on and on. Now, most of the bugs not represented in the guide are very small, hard to find, very hard or even impossible to ID by photos alone. But don't get discouraged. Take springtails, for instance, very small and they go unnoticed by most. An expert has been helping us with IDs and we have over 100 species IDed out of three hundreds. Not bad!
Maybe you want to become an expert in one particular group and bring us lots and lots of pictures and some new information. Good luck!

Remember to search using either the genus or the species name, not both, as both together don't usually get you to the right page. If it doesn't seem to be in the guide, you can request a new page be created (by an editor) using the appropriate section of the Forums - here. You'll see if you look at those requests that new things show up all the time, although the vast majority of posts do tend to be in the guide already. I imagine we're nowhere near having everything in the US covered (perhaps someone else can comment on the numbers involved - I know they are huge), though probably the larger and showier your creature is, the more likely it's in these pages already.