{"id":130945,"date":"2026-10-28T13:50:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=130945"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T08:27:08","slug":"allocaecilius-nilgiriensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/allocaecilius-nilgiriensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Allocaecilius Nilgiriensis: Scientists Discover New Insect Species in Western Ghats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Allocaecilius Nilgiriensis Latest news<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have discovered and described a new insect species and named it as Allocaecilius nilgiriensis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Allocaecilius Nilgiriensis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a new <b>barklice species<\/b><\/span><b>,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered in <\/span><b><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nilgiri-hills\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nilgiri Hills<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is only the second time a member of this unique barklouse genus has ever been recorded in the country. It brings the total number of known <\/span><b>Allocaecilius species worldwide to thirteen.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Distribution:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is found across the lush landscapes of the <\/span><b>Southern Western Ghats in Tamil Nadu and Keralam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Habitat:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These tiny barklice are specialised inhabitants restricted to the <\/span><b>damp, shaded canopies and understories of high-altitude shola<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and evergreen rainforests in the southern Western Ghats.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barklice are a <\/span><b>vital microscopic clean-up crew,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> grazing harmlessly on the surface of tree bark, feeding on mould, fungi, algae, lichens, and dead organic debris<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>Appearance<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has distinctive brown patches located in <\/span><b>specific distal of its forewings,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> alongside specialised thumb-like structures on the <\/span><b>male&#8217;s lower abdomen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (hypandrium) and a deeply indented subgenital plate in females.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/researchmatters.in\/news\/rare-new-species-of-barklice-insect-discovered-from-the-nilgiri-mountains\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the Zoological Survey of India have identified Allocaecilius nilgiriensis, a new barklouse species in the Nilgiri Hills of the Southern Western Ghats. Found in the moist shola and evergreen forests of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, it is only the second species of its genus recorded in India, highlighting the region&#8217;s rich insect biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":130909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11193],"class_list":["post-130945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-allocaecilius-nilgiriensis","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130945","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=130945"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130991,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130945\/revisions\/130991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}