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New species of small life forms recorded from northeast

GUWAHATI

From moths to a gecko, it has been a festive season of zoological finds in India’s northeast. Researchers and specialists have recorded several small life forms from the region after years of studying samples.

Stefan Naumann, an associate of Berlin’s Museum fur Naturkunde and Peter Smetacek of the Bhimtal-based Butterfly Research Centre described 11 emperor moths (Saturniidae) species new to science in Bionotes journal. Nine of these are from Arunachal Pradesh and Assam.

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