{"id":2724,"date":"2023-02-16T07:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T01:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2025-03-25T23:54:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:24:48","slug":"omorgus-khandesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/omorgus-khandesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Omorgus Khandesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Omorgus Khandesh:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a necrophagous and also called a keratin beetle.<\/li>\n<li>This species belongs to the <strong>Trogidae family<\/strong>. With the addition of this new species, now there are a total of 14 extant species of this family in India.<\/li>\n<li>The beetles of this group are sometimes called <strong>hide beetles<\/strong> as they tend to cover their body under the soil and hide.<\/li>\n<li>It is mainly associated with bird and mammal nests or burrows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is necrophagous?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The arthropods which feed directly on dead remains and constitute are called necrophagous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are beetles?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0Beetles are insects in the Order Coleoptera \u2013 which means \u2018sheath-winged\u2019. This refers to their generally most obvious characteristic \u2013 they almost always have forewings modified to form protective wing cases,covering the hind wings used for flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/news\/wildlife-biodiversity\/meet-omorgus-khandesh-a-newly-discovered-indian-beetle-it-can-help-forensic-science-87718\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Meet \u2018Omorgus Khandesh\u2019, a newly discovered Indian beetle: It can help forensic science<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Omorgus Khandesh is a necrophagous and also called a keratin beetle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2724","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\/2724","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=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}