{"id":7167,"date":"2012-08-14T11:40:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/?p=7167"},"modified":"2012-08-14T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T01:40:52","slug":"new-green-lacewing-discovered-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/nature\/new-green-lacewing-discovered-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"New green lacewing discovered in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 605px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7169\" title=\"newlacewingfoundinmalaysia\" src=\"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/newlacewingfoundinmalaysia1-e1344907949242.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"403\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Green lacewing adults feed on flowers. Image: Guek Hock Ping<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Malaysian amateur photographer, Guek Hock Ping, captured a beautiful green lacewing in early 2011. Before freeing it, he took some <a href=\"http:\/\/orionmystery.blogspot.com\">pictures <\/a>that were uploaded to Flickr. When Shaun Winterton, an entomologist who works at the California Department of Food &amp; Agriculture, saw the pictures, he realised that the specimen had a distinctive wing pattern and wondered if it was a new species.<\/p>\n<p>Although similar to <em>Semachrysa wallacei<\/em>, researchers and citizen scientists, including Guek Hock, tried to capture another specimen in Selangor State Park in Malaysia; and year later, in 2012, they found a female specimen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The unusual new species is easily differentiated from all other species of <em>Semachrysa<\/em> by the distinctive wing venation mark between the antennal bases and only two spots across the frons,&#8221;\u009d wrote the researchers in a paper recently published in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pensoft.net\/journals\/zookeys\/\">Zoo Keys<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The now famous <em>Semachrysa jade<\/em>\u00a0has a forewing length 15 mm; its discovery is proof of the fruitful collaboration between citizen scientists and researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Malaysian amateur photographer, Guek Hock Ping, captured a beautiful green lacewing in early 2011. Before freeing it, he took some pictures that were uploaded to Flickr. When Shaun Winterton, an entomologist who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,101,56,116,6],"tags":[166,169,614],"class_list":["post-7167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-images","category-bulls-eye","category-conservation","category-insects","category-nature","tag-insects-2","tag-nature-2","tag-new-species"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7167\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceillustrated.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}