{"id":56875,"date":"2025-07-26T13:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=56875"},"modified":"2025-07-26T15:36:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T10:06:15","slug":"piratula-acuminata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/piratula-acuminata\/","title":{"rendered":"Piratula acuminata"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Piratula acuminata Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) researchers recently announced the discovery of a new spider species on Sagar Island in the Sundarbans, named Piratula acuminata.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Piratula acuminata<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new species of spider.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered on <\/span><b>Sagar Island in the Sundarbans.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The newly identified species, Piratula acuminata, belongs to the <\/span><b>family Lycosidae, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commonly <\/span><b>known as wolf spiders.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike web-building spiders, these agile predators are <\/span><b>ground-dwelling and rely on ambush tactics to capture prey.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It marks the <\/span><b>first recorded instance of the genus Piratula in India<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a group of <\/span><b>wolf spiders<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> predominantly found across Asia, with limited distribution in Europe and North America.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\">Piratula acuminata is a<b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> medium-sized spider, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">approximately 8\u201310 millimetres long, with a <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">pale creamy-white body<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> featuring brown and chalk-white spots on its abdomen and a pair of light brown stripes towards the rear.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ptinews.com\/stories-detail\/national\/zsi-scientists-discover-new-wolf-spider-species-in-sunderbans\/2760008\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PTI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piratula acuminata is a new species of spider discovered on Sagar Island in the Sundarbans. Read more about Piratula acuminata, A Spider Species, Discovery, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":56869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1816,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-56875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-piratula-acuminata","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\/56875","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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}