{"id":112915,"date":"2026-07-13T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=112915"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T08:14:13","slug":"new-species-of-jumping-spiders-upsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-species-of-jumping-spiders-upsc\/","title":{"rendered":"New Species of Jumping Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>New Species of Jumping Spiders Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three new species of rare jumping spiders, genus Onomastus, have been discovered by a team of researchers from India and Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About New Species of Jumping Spiders<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">All three species of jumping spiders belong to the <\/span><b>genus Onomastus.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The new species are:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Onomastus brahmagiri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: It was discovered in the <\/span><b>Brahmagiri Hills of the Western Ghats<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Onomastus silentvalle<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">y: It was discovered in the <\/span><b>shola forests of <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/silent-valley-national-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Valley National Park<\/a>, Kerala.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Onomastus wijesinghei:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was discovered in the <\/span><b>montane forests of Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Onomastus <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">belongs to one of the <\/span><b>oldest lineages of jumping spiders <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and is <\/span><b>restricted to the Oriental region.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly described species are known only from isolated montane forests and are believed to have limited dispersal ability.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The findings support the \u201c<\/span><b>sky island\u201d concep<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t, in which<\/span><b> isolated montane habitats act as natural islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, promoting<\/span><b> long-term geographic isolation, speciation, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and high levels of <\/span><b>endemism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/researchers-discover-three-new-species-of-rare-jumping-spiders\/article71210387.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All three species of jumping spiders belong to the genus Onomastus. 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