Your Weekly Attenborough: Acisoma attenboroughi

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By Nathaniel Scharping
Mar 10, 2018 3:20 AMFeb 11, 2020 8:16 PM
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Klaas-Douwe Dijkstra is no stranger to new insects.

The prolific odonatologist has dozens to his name, thanks in large part to a sweeping 2015 paper cataloguing the results of 15 years of work in Africa. That effort added 60 dragonflies and damselflies to the scientific record, and was met with general acclaim from critics.

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