Meet Franklin Howley-Dumit Serulle, the amateur naturalist whose online insect photo helped reveal a new hoverfly species
- PC: Swiss Academy of SciencesA photograph shared online has helped scientists identify a hoverfly species that had remained a mystery for years.
- The insect, named ‘Monoceromyia ndidiae’, was photographed in the Dominican Republic and posted on iNaturalist.
- Its unusual appearance caught the attention of an entomologist, who began asking whether the fly represented something unknown.
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- PC: Swiss Academy of SciencesA photograph shared online has helped scientists identify a hoverfly species that had remained a mystery for years.
- The insect, named ‘Monoceromyia ndidiae’, was photographed in the Dominican Republic and posted on iNaturalist.
- Its unusual appearance caught the attention of an entomologist, who began asking whether the fly represented something unknown.
Sources: Times of India