{"id":18586,"date":"2023-12-25T02:53:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-24T21:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18586"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T06:20:32","slug":"new-jumping-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/new-jumping-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"New jumping spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About New Jumping spiders<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Specimens of\u00a0Afraflacilla kerala were spotted in Irinjalakuda and Kuttanad while\u00a0Afraflacilla adavathurensis\u00a0was discovered from Adavathur in Tiruchirappalli<\/li>\n<li>Only three species belonging to the Afraflacilla genus had been hitherto discovered in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Features\n<ul>\n<li>According to the researchers, these species have interesting diagnostic features consisting of dark brown carapace with fine bands of white setae covering laterally.<\/li>\n<li>Their abdomens are light brown and display white bands formed of white hairs that cover it laterally.<\/li>\n<li>Jumping spiders of the genus Afraflacilla are widespread from\u00a0Africa to\u00a0Australia\u00a0with various known species found in\u00a0Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Central, Eastern and Western Europe, numerous African countries and Australia.<\/li>\n<li>Recent findings have revealed the presence of the genus in\u00a0Rajasthan,\u00a0Kerala\u00a0and\u00a0Tamil Nadu.<\/li>\n<li>With the new findings, the number of known Afraflacilla species has grown to 47 with Africa reporting the most at 19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Afraflacilla?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).Most species are distributed in Eastern to Northern Africa (including the Middle East) and Australia, with two species (A. epiblemoides and A. tarajalis) found in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/two-jumping-spider-species-discovered-from-kerala-tamil-nadu\/article67671839.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Two jumping spider species discovered from Kerala, Tamil Nadu<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New jumping spiders were spotted recently from Kerala and Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18587,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}