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New twig hopper species

August 7 , 2020 1445 days 1373 0
  • After a span of 116 years, a first new species of twighopper, (genus Cladonotus Saussure) was discovered from the Sinharaja rainforest of Sri Lanka by Croatian and German researchers.
  • This cockcomb-shaped twighopper has been named as Cladonotus bhaskari after Dhaneesh Bhaskar, a young conservation biologist and grasshopper expert from Kerala Forest Research Institute.

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