{"id":6687,"date":"2023-03-19T05:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T23:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6687"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:52:58","slug":"trichrysis-poseidonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/trichrysis-poseidonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Trichrysis poseidonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Trichrysis poseidonia:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The new species of <strong>cuckoo wasp<\/strong> has been named <strong>Trichrysis poseidonia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>T. poseidonia specimens were collected from <strong>Tamil Nadu and Madayipara in Kannur<\/strong>. Another specimen was obtained from Nepal.<\/li>\n<li>The specific name is derived <strong>from Poseidon,<\/strong> the Greek God of the Sea, for the three sharp and pointed apical abdominal teeth seen in this species, recalling the Poseidon\u2019s trident.<\/li>\n<li>These wasps belong <strong>to the family Chrysididae.<\/strong> They are also known as cuckoo wasps because they <strong>are kleptoparasitic (stealing food from others<\/strong>) on other wasps and bees as the cuckoo bird.<\/li>\n<li>The members of the family Chrysididae are more active in warm areas and they are <strong>heliophilic (more active in sunlight).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The laterite plateau of Madayipara is well known for its rich biodiversity and is suitable for these wasps.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Laterite block?<\/h3>\n<p>Laterite block is a soil and rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/new-species-of-cuckoo-wasp-discovered\/article66631831.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>New species of cuckoo wasp discovered<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trichrysis poseidonia is a new species of cuckoo wasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6687","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\/6687","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=6687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}