{"id":49511,"date":"2025-06-07T14:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49511"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:43:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:13:20","slug":"losgna-occidentalis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/losgna-occidentalis\/","title":{"rendered":"Losgna Occidentalis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Losgna Occidentalis Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A recent study published in Zootaxa, a peer-reviewed scientific journal for animal taxonomists, pointed out the rediscovery of the Losgna genus in India, after close to six decades.<\/p>\n<h2>About Losgna Occidentalis<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It was discovered from an urban dry scrub forest in\u00a0<strong>Chandigarh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It belongs to a\u00a0<strong>parasitic wasp<\/strong>\u00a0(family Ichneumonidae), a group known for laying eggs inside or on other arthropod hosts.<\/li>\n<li>Prior to this discovery, Losgna had not been recorded in India since Heinrich\u2019s 1965 monograph. No records, specimens or published literature on Losgna existed in any Indian institution after 1965.<\/li>\n<li>It appeared that the genus had vanished entirely from its once\u2010documented range in northeast India\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Researched named the new species \u2018Losgna occidentalis\u2019 because it represents the westernmost known occurrence of the genus:\u00a0<strong>prior records<\/strong>\u00a0came exclusively from\u00a0<strong>tropical forests of eastern India<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>adjacent regions of Southeast Asia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>At present only existing specimens of any Losgna species are those preserved at the Natural History Museum, London.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Losgna Occidentalis FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is a Parasite?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0It is an organism that lives on or in another organism, the host, and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What are Tropical Forests?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Tropical forests are rich ecosystems located in tropical zones surrounding the equator. They make up six percent of Earth&#8217;s land surface area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/science\/rediscovery-of-the-losgna-genus-in-india-a-new-species-of-parasitic-wasp-discovered-in-chandigarh-named-losgna-occidentalis\/article69665130.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Losgna occidentalis was discovered in an urban dry scrub forest in Chandigarh, marking a notable addition to the region&#8217;s biodiversity records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-losgna-occidentalis","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49511","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}