{"id":121436,"date":"2026-08-28T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=121436"},"modified":"2026-08-28T15:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:38:14","slug":"spoon-tailed-duskhawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spoon-tailed-duskhawker\/","title":{"rendered":"Spoon-Tailed Duskhawker"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Spoon-Tailed Duskhawker Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, researchers verified the first photographic evidence of the spoon-tailed duskhawker (Gynacantha basiguttata) in Arunachal Pradesh.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Spoon-Tailed Duskhawker<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a species of dragonfly and a member of <\/span><b>the Aeshnidae family.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Individuals can be spotted patrolling or <\/span><b>perching near streams, forest pools.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Philippines and is found in <\/span><b>several parts of <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/india-southeast-asia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Southeast Asia<\/strong><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This species <\/span><b>hunts flying insects<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (mosquitoes, small flies, gnats) and plays an important role in aquatic food webs<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is strong, fast fliers that hunt on the wing where it can hunt effectively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G. basiguttata includes a <\/span><b>black T-shaped mark<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the frons (forehead or front part of the head), an olive-green thorax without a stripe, distinctive wing pigmentation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has narrow, expanded cerci (pair of small, jointed feelers) that give the <\/span><b>abdominal appendages<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a spoon-like appearance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/spoon-tailed-duskhawker-arunachal-find-fattens-indias-dragonfly-list\/article71395615.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spoon-Tailed Duskhawker is a species of dragonfly and a member of the Aeshnidae family. Read more about Spoon-Tailed Duskhawker, Habitat, Distribution, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":121498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9845],"class_list":["post-121436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-spoon-tailed-duskhawker","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436","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=121436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121476,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121436\/revisions\/121476"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}