{"id":21367,"date":"2024-03-08T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21367"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T06:15:30","slug":"taeniogonalos-deepaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/taeniogonalos-deepaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Taeniogonalos Deepaki"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Taeniogonalos deepaki<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered in the\u00a0Belgaum region of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>It is named after the medical doctor and nature enthusiast Dr Deepak Deshpande who collected the specimen.<\/li>\n<li>The genus Taeniogonalos belongs to the family Trigonalyidae of the order Hymenoptera.<\/li>\n<li>The Trigonalyidae family consists of a type of insects\u00a0called hyperparasitoids that \u201csneak into\u201d parasitoids, or insects whose larvae develop on or within the bodies of other insects.<\/li>\n<li>Distribution: The Taeniogonalos genus is distributed in\u00a0Afrotropical, oriental, eastern palaearctic, nearctic, Australian and neotropical regions; 6 of the species have been reported earlier from India and 20 from China.<\/li>\n<li>The scientists have also reported the first male description of another species,\u00a0Taeniogonalos eurysoma.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the Taeniogonalos species have been reported from south India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is a parasitoid?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an organism that has young that develop\u00a0on or within another organism (the host), eventually killing it.<\/li>\n<li>Parasitoids have characteristics of both predators and parasites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Parasitism?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/new-species-parasitoid-wasp-discovered-in-western-ghats\/article67925337.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of parasitoid wasp discovered in Western Ghats<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taeniogonalos Deepaki was discovered in the Belgaum region of Karnataka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21367","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\/21367","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=21367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}