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In March 2023, A JOINT research team - comprising members of the zoology departments of Panjab University (PU) and those from Ashoka University, Sonipat, and those from National Institute of Science Education and Research, Orrisa - has discovered three new species of predatory bush cricket (scientific name Hexacentrus) in which of the following states?
Answer: B
The answer is Haryana and Meghalaya. The question describes a joint team from the zoology departments of Panjab University, Ashoka University and the National Institute of Science Education and Research, which reported three new species of the predatory bush cricket genus Hexacentrus in March 2023. The official key places the new species in Haryana and Meghalaya. Bush crickets are katydids (family Tettigoniidae), and Hexacentrus species hunt other insects at night, which is why the question calls them predatory. Punjab, Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh appear in the other options, and none of those pairs is given by the key. The item depends on a single news report, so the key is taken as printed.
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