{"id":49702,"date":"2025-06-10T14:14:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T08:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49702"},"modified":"2025-06-10T16:19:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T10:49:45","slug":"spathaspina-noohi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/spathaspina-noohi\/","title":{"rendered":"Spathaspina Noohi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Spathaspina noohi Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>A new species of beetle, named Spathaspina noohi, was recently discovered from the biodiverse forests of Meghalaya.<\/p>\n<h2>About Spathaspina Noohi<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>new species of beetle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The beetle was found in the Umran area of Ri Bhoi district in\u00a0<strong>Meghalaya\u00a0<\/strong>at an elevation of 781 metres.<\/li>\n<li>It belongs to the\u00a0<strong>weevil family.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Weevils are\u00a0<strong>part of the large beetle family Curculionidae<\/strong>, which includes over 60,000 known species globally.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While\u00a0<strong>many are known as agricultural pests,\u00a0<\/strong>s<strong>ome, like the Spathaspina noohi,<\/strong>\u00a0play important roles in ecosystems by\u00a0<strong>helping control invasive plant species\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>maintaining ecological balance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Spathaspina noohi features a\u00a0<strong>striking sword-like spine on its back.\u00a0<\/strong>This highly unusual anatomical feature\u00a0<strong>led researchers to assign\u00a0<\/strong>it to an entirely\u00a0<strong>new genus within the subfamily Ceutorhynchinae.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This\u00a0<strong>new genus name combines<\/strong>\u00a0the Latin\u00a0<strong>words spatha (meaning sword)\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>spina (meaning spine),<\/strong>\u00a0inspired by the beetle\u2019s prominent spine.\n<ul>\n<li>The subfamily\u00a0<strong>Ceutorhynchinae\u00a0<\/strong>includes just over 1,300 species.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These beetles are\u00a0<strong>found around the world<\/strong>, but\u00a0<strong>not in New Zealand, Oceania, Antarctica\u00a0<\/strong>and nearby islands, or\u00a0<strong>southern South America<\/strong>\u00a0(below central Argentina and Chile).\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>greatest variety<\/strong>\u00a0of these beetles is seen in the\u00a0<strong>Palaearctic Region\u00a0<\/strong>(Europe, North Africa, parts of Asia), followed by the\u00a0<strong>Oriental Region\u00a0<\/strong>(South and Southeast Asia).<\/li>\n<li>Ceutorhynchinae beetles can be identified by their<strong>\u00a0sturdy body,\u00a0<\/strong>their ability to tuck their snout (rostrum) between their front legs when at rest, and the visibility of a part of their body (mesanepimera) from the back \u2014 except in a few genera like Cyphosenus and Ceutorhynchoides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Spathaspina Noohi FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is Spathaspina noohi, recently discovered in India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is a new species of beetle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. In which Indian state was Spathaspina noohi discovered?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Meghalaya<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is the ecological significance of some weevil species like Spathaspina noohi?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Help control invasive plant species.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nenow.in\/north-east-news\/meghalaya\/new-beetle-species-with-sword-like-spine-discovered-in-meghalaya-forests.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NEN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pathaspina noohi is a newly discovered species of beetle, adding to the growing diversity of insect fauna documented by entomologists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,777,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-spathaspina-noohi","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\/49702","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=49702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}