{"id":122984,"date":"2026-09-05T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T09:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=122984"},"modified":"2026-09-05T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T10:04:08","slug":"stegodyphus-sarasinorum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/stegodyphus-sarasinorum\/","title":{"rendered":"Stegodyphus sarasinorum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Stegodyphus sarasinorum Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of Indian researchers has produced the first comprehensive molecular and functional profile of the venom gland of Stegodyphus sarasinorum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Stegodyphus sarasinorum<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>colonial spider species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also called an <\/span><b>Indian cooperative spider or an Indian social spider.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found <\/span><b>across the Indian subcontinent.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It inhabits the <\/span><b>semi-arid areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the central and southern states.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Characteristics<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It lives in <\/span><b>permanent colonies, constructs communal silk nests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and captures prey cooperatively.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The colony composition of S. sarasinorum is <\/span><b>dominated by females.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is among <\/span><b>only a small number of permanently social spider species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> known worldwide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They <\/span><b>hunt and feed communally,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and live in cooperatively built nests of silk and other matter.\u00a0 These <\/span><b>nocturnal spiders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> feed together.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Sexual dimorphism is observed among<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> S. sarasinorum where males are smaller than females and darker in colour.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/indian-researchers-map-colonial-spiders-venom-gland-uncover-molecules-with-potential-for-future-cancer-and-antimicrobial-drug-research\/article71427539.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stegodyphus sarasinorum is a colonial spider species. Read more about Stegodyphus sarasinorum, Habitat, Distribution, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":123001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,10038,22,23],"class_list":["post-122984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-stegodyphus-sarasinorum","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122984","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=122984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123016,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122984\/revisions\/123016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}