{"id":129751,"date":"2026-10-20T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=129751"},"modified":"2026-10-20T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:21:00","slug":"homoporus-tridentata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/homoporus-tridentata\/","title":{"rendered":"Homoporus Tridentata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Homoporus Tridentata Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, entomologists have announced the discovery of a previously unknown parasitoid wasp species, Homoporus tridentate.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Homoporus Tridentata<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new<\/span><b> parasitoid wasp species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its name is directly derived from the Latin-based anatomical description of its distinctive <\/span><b>three-toothed clypeal margin.<\/b><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Features<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The male species exhibits a brilliant metallic <\/span><b>green head and thorax<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> set against copper-brown eyes and ocelli.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its most <\/span><b>prominent feature is clypeus<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (a shield on the front of the face) <\/span><b>carries three distinct teeth, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with the middle tooth noticeably longer than the two stouter lateral teeth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It possesses <\/span><b>asymmetrical, or heterodont, mandibles,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> sporting four teeth on the right jaw and three on the left.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ecological Significance: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The wasps in the <\/span><b>genus Homoporus are natural parasitoids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that target the larvae and pupae of <\/span><b>agricultural and forestry pests<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/researchmatters.in\/news\/researchers-discover-a-new-three-toothed-parasitoid-micro-wasp-on-the-university-of-kashmir-campus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Homoporus Tridentata is a new parasitoid wasp species. Read more about Homoporus Tridentata, Features, Ecological Significance, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":129805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11007],"class_list":["post-129751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-homoporus-tridentata","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129751","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=129751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129825,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129751\/revisions\/129825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}