Australian researchers named many new species of animals and plants

Xinhua News Agency, Canberra, September 15 (Reporter Bai Xuyue Dongxing) The Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization issued a communiqu on the 15th, stating that its researchers have scientifically named about 150 new species of animals and plants in the past year, most of which For insects
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The communiqué stated that researchers named a newly discovered "soldier fly" "Opaluma rupaul", which is rainbow-colored and has spines on the underside of the abdomen
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Brian Lessard, a postdoctoral researcher at a research institution affiliated to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization of Australia, said that many of the 13 newly named "soldier flies" came from areas affected by the previous "black summer" forest fires
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Australia's 2019-2020 forest fire season burned more than 115,000 square kilometers, more than 30 people died, and thousands of houses burned down, which is called the "black summer"

In addition to insects, new species such as lizards, sharks, and orchids have been named this time