{"id":30528,"date":"2025-03-03T03:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30528"},"modified":"2025-04-11T08:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:41:01","slug":"epidelaxia-falciformis-epidelaxia-palustris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/epidelaxia-falciformis-epidelaxia-palustris\/","title":{"rendered":"Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustris"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustris Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Researchers have discovered two new species of jumping spiders from the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary and named it as Epidelaxia falciformis sp. nov. and Epidelaxia palustris.<\/p>\n<h2>About Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustris<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These two speciesbelong to the <strong>genus Epidelaxia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was for the first time the genus Epidelaxia has been recorded from India as it was previously considered endemic to Sri Lanka.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Physical Features of Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustri<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These consist of prominent <strong>yellow triangular-shaped mark<\/strong> on the<strong> prosoma<\/strong> (the front part of the body) of females and unique traits of the copulatory organs in both males and females.<\/li>\n<li>Males of E. falciformis have a brown carapace with a yellow-brown stripe, while males of E. palustris feature a pale brown band along the side of their bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The females exhibit similar colouration, with the added feature of white orbital setae around their eyes.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers add that the species vary slightly in size, with E. falciformis measuring 4.39 mm. E. palustris measures 4.57 mm in males and 3.69 mm in females.<\/li>\n<li>These spiders have been described as highly adapted to their environment, inhabiting the <strong>dense foliage of the Western Ghats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustris FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1.<\/strong> Which river flows through the Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> Chenthuruni River<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2.<\/strong> Where is Western Ghats located?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans.<\/strong> The Western Ghats are a mountain range in India that run along the western coast of the country, from Gujarat to Tamil Nadu.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/two-new-species-of-jumping-spiders-discovered-in-western-ghats\/article69282217.ece#:~:text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epidelaxia Falciformis and Epidelaxia Palustris are species within the genus Epidelaxia, known for their distinct characteristics and ecological significance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30528","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\/30528","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=30528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}