Meghalaya forests reveal two rare species of Ladybird Beetles  

: A major international taxonomic review has placed Meghalaya firmly on the biodiversity map, with the discovery of two rare ladybird beetles never before recorded in India. The study, published in the latest issue of Zootaxa , documents Plotina mueller i and Plotina octomaculata from the Khasi and Garo Hills—marking the first-ever record of the genus Plotina in the country.

Authored by Dr. J. Poorani of the ICAR–National Research Centre for Banana, along with Jaroslav Větrovec from the Czech Republic and Karol Szawaryn of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the review provides the most comprehensive account yet of the tribe Plotinini , a small but evolutionarily distinct group of ladybird beetles found only in Asia. Until now, only six species across three genera were kno