{"id":110279,"date":"2026-06-28T15:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=110279"},"modified":"2026-06-28T17:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T11:48:35","slug":"tetrastichus-narayandebnathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tetrastichus-narayandebnathi\/","title":{"rendered":"Tetrastichus narayandebnathi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Tetrastichus narayandebnathi Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new wasp (&#8216;bolta&#8217;) species named Tetrastichus narayandebnathi was recently discovered in Rajarhat. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Tetrastichus narayandebnathi<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new species of <\/span><b>parasitoid wasp.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was <\/span><b>discovered <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the Rajarhat region of<\/span><b> West Bengal.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been <\/span><b>named <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">after <\/span><b>award-winning cartoonist<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>creator of &#8216;Batul&#8217; and &#8216;Nonte-Phonte<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8216;, <\/span><b>Narayan Debnath.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been recorded as a<\/span><b> gregarious primary parasitoid of a tortoise beetle pupa.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>parasitoid <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life cycle <\/span><b>attached to or inside a single host organism, which it ultimately consumes<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and kills.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only the <\/span><b>third account of the genus Tetrastichus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Haliday, 1844, as a <\/span><b>parasitoid of Cassidinae (a subfamily of leaf beetles<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), but it&#8217;s also the second report from India among 86 valid Indian species. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>News<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/kolkata\/scientists-discover-new-wasp-species-in-rajarhat-name-it-after-narayan-debnath\/articleshow\/132038207.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tetrastichus narayandebnathi is a new parasitoid wasp from West Bengal, named after Narayan Debnath and linked to tortoise beetles. Read more about Tetrastichus narayandebnathi, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":110329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,8368,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-110279","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-tetrastichus-narayandebnathi","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\/110279","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110330,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279\/revisions\/110330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}