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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Graham Readfearn

CSIRO researchers identify 139 new species, including an ant that ‘babysits’ caterpillars

Bulloak Jewel Butterfly
The newly named ant Anonychomyrma inclinata carries the caterpillars of the rare and beautiful Bulloak jewel butterfly in its jaws. Photograph: Michael Braby/CSIRO

A blind cave-dwelling weevil, an ant that protects the caterpillars of one of Australia’s rarest butterflies, and the first millipede to actually have more than 1,000 legs were among 139 new species described by scientists at CSIRO in the past year.

Other discoveries formally named and described in scientific journals include 131 insects and other invertebrates, four fish, three plants and a frog.

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