{"id":29312,"date":"2025-01-09T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29312"},"modified":"2025-04-09T02:07:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T20:37:56","slug":"neuroptera-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/neuroptera-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroptera Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Neuroptera Species:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Indophanes barbara<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>an antlion<\/strong> belonging to the Myrmeleontidae<strong> family.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The larva of Indophanes barbara does not build pits like common antlion species.<\/li>\n<li>They live under the <strong>surface in loose soils<\/strong> where they are protected from direct sunlight, wind and rain.<\/li>\n<li>Adults of Indophanes barbara are misidentified as damselflies by non-taxonomists because of their morphological resemblance.<\/li>\n<li>It can be easily distinguished by their <strong>long distinct antennae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They come under Order Neuroptera, which includes holometabolous insects while the damselflies come under Order Odonata, which includes hemimetabolous insects<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glenochrysa zeylanica<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a green lacewing of Chrysopidae family in Order Neuroptera.<\/li>\n<li>It was rediscovered after 111 years from Mananthavady and Thirunelly in Wayanad district.<\/li>\n<li>This species, previously thought to be endemic to Sri Lanka, has been rediscovered from the State and <strong>reported for the first time from India.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What is a Neuroptera Species?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is any of a group of insects commonly called lacewings because of the complex vein patterns in the wings, giving them a lacy appearance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Habitat:<\/strong> Neuropteran adults are terrestrial and mostly associated with the aerial parts of plants, where they settle or hunt for prey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecological Significance:<\/strong> Due to their predatory behaviour, Neuropterans are used in agriculture. The voracious feeding capability, as well as active mobile prey-searching behaviour revealed by the larvae of species particularly of Chrysopidae, Hemerobiidae, and Coniopterygidae makes them active biological control agents of most important pests of agriculture and horticulture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1: What is Damselfly?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>It is any of a group of predatory, aerial insects that are in the order Odonata. Damselflies are found mainly near shallow, freshwater habitats and are graceful fliers with slender bodies and long, filmy, net-veined wings. They are generally smaller, more delicate, and fly weakly in comparison with dragonflies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/two-rare-neuroptera-species-found-for-the-first-time-from-kerala\/article69076913.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroptera Species is any of a group of insects commonly called lacewings because of the complex vein patterns in the wings, giving them a lacy appearance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29312","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\/29312","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=29312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}