{"id":177200,"date":"2023-12-01T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-new-mantis-species"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:22:38","slug":"citizen-scientists-help-discover-new-mantis-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-new-mantis-species","title":{"rendered":"Citizen scientists help discover new mantis species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/citizen-scientists-help-discover-new-mantis-species2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists. The finds have been <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11646\/zootaxa.5380.3.1\">published<\/a> in Zootaxa.<\/p>\n<p>One of these new mantises is not just a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+species\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new species<\/a> but an entirely new genus\u2014the classification level above species\u2014and was discovered thanks to citizen scientist Glenda Walter.<\/p>\n<p>We have named the new species Inimia nat\u2014I. nat for short\u2014as it was discovered thanks to the citizen science platform iNaturalist\u2014also iNat for short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cook University researcher Matthew Connors has discovered two new praying mantis species with the help of citizen scientists. The finds have been published in Zootaxa. One of these new mantises is not just a new species but an entirely new genus\u2014the classification level above species\u2014and was discovered thanks to citizen scientist Glenda Walter. We [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}