{"id":3622,"date":"2023-01-30T03:42:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2025-03-26T16:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T11:18:48","slug":"what-is-soliga-ecarinata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-soliga-ecarinata\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Soliga Ecarinata?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Soliga Ecarinata:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Soliga ecarinata is a <strong>new wasp<\/strong> that belongs to the subfamily Metopiinae of the Darwin wasp&#8217;s family Ichneumonidae.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These are seen only in the Palaearctic region, Neotropical and Nearctic regions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This is the second genus of this subfamily reported from India and the first from South India.<\/li>\n<li>Scientists have named this wasp after the <strong>Soliga community.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Who are Soligas?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Soligas are an indigenous tribe of Karnataka, inhabiting the peripheral forest areas near Biligiri Rangana Hills and Male Mahadeshwara in the Chamarajnagar district of Karnataka.<\/li>\n<li>The Soligas were dependent on hunting and shifting agriculture traditionally.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are the first tribal community living inside the core area of a tiger reserve in India to get their forest rights officially recognised by a court of law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about the Biligiri Rangan Hills<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located northwest of the Western Ghats and on the westernmost edge of the Eastern Ghats.<\/li>\n<li>The unique geographical positioning and diversity of habitats make BRT one of the richest areas for biodiversity in India.<\/li>\n<li>The Kapila and Cauvery Rivers flow through these hills.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Palaearctic region?<\/h3>\n<p>The Palearctic region encompasses Eurasia, including Europe, northern Africa, and Asia north of the Oriental region.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/new-genus-of-wasp-named-after-soligas-community-in-karnataka\/article66447767.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>A new genus of wasp named after the Soliga community in Karnataka<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soliga ecarinata is a new wasp that belongs to the subfamily Metopiinae of Darwin wasp&#8217;s family Ichneumonidae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3622","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\/3622","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=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}