{"id":100801,"date":"2026-04-29T12:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=100801"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:30:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:00:50","slug":"theridion-himalayana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/theridion-himalayana\/","title":{"rendered":"Theridion Himalayana"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Theridion Himalayana Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, scientists discovered a new spider species and named it as Theridion himalayana\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Theridion Himalayana<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new species of \u2018happy-face spider\u2019 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belongs to the \u2018Theridiidae\u2019 family<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in <\/span><b>western Himalayas of India.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>polymorphic in both sexes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and has 32 different morphs that <\/span><b>exhibit patterns of a smiling face<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with dots in colours of red, black and white arranged differently.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>unique reproductive structures.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>copulatory ducts of the species are long<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, strongly curved and project forward, running almost parallel before bending downward at the ends.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fertilisation ducts, on the other hand, are short, thin and point upward, spreading apart in a V-shape.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species <\/span><b>preys upon small flies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and insects and plays a significant role in insect control in the forests.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It could also be a crucial pollinator for some plants<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/states\/odisha\/2026\/Apr\/28\/odia-scientists-discover-new-happy-face-spider-species\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theridion Himalayana is a new species of \u2018happy-face spider\u2019 belongs to the \u2018Theridiidae\u2019 family. Read more about Theridion Himalayana, Discovery, Features, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":100793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,7207,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-100801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-theridionhimalayana","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100801"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100832,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100801\/revisions\/100832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}