Wayanad:After a gap of 116 years, a group of foreign researchers in Sri Lanka has discovered a new grasshopper species called pygmy twig grasshopper. The grasshopper has been named 'Cladonotus Bhaskari' after 28-years-old Kerala based conservation researcher Dhaneesh Bhaskar.
Bhaskar is a native of the Padinjarethara in Kerala's Wayanad district. He has made significant contributions to conservation research in India.
The new species of the twig hopper was recently discovered in Sinharaja Rain Forests in Sri Lanka, by the researchers from Germany and Croatia.
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