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Glowing Blue Spider Is Among the Dozens of New Discoveries Uncovered During Expedition to 'Uncharted' Area
A recent expedition to Central Africa has uncovered dozens of new species.
In February, a team of 16 specialists from Africa and around the world visited the Lisima plateau in eastern Angola and conducted a biodiversity survey, through which they discovered dozens of species unknown to science, according to The Wilderness Project, which led the survey.
The organization dedicated to studying and protecting Africa's freshwater wilderness announced the findings from the remote scientific expedition in the area — seen as one of Africa's last great biodiversity blank spots — in a news release obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday, June 3.
The survey, called the Cassai Life Atlas, in the "almost entirely uncharted" area of Angola, uncovered "eight undescribed dragonfly species, three new grasshopper species, and approximately 60 moths and butterflies new to science," The Wilderness Project said in the release.
Forty-seven grasshopper, katydid, and cricket taxa were also uncovered, three of which were new to science.
Specialists also found 103 dragonfly and damselfly species, including 34 previously unrecorded in the Lisima region. As a result of the survey, six species were added to Angola's national list, and eight are in the process of being formally described.
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https://people.com/dozens-of-unknown-species-discovered-in-angola-11990176Glowing Blue Spider Is Among the Dozens of New Discoveries Uncovered During Expedition to 'Uncharted' Area
A recent expedition to Central Africa has uncovered dozens of new species.
In February, a team of 16 specialists from Africa ...[text shortened]... e added to Angola's national list, and eight are in the process of being formally described.
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