{"id":71969,"date":"2025-11-04T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T07:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=71969"},"modified":"2025-11-06T10:56:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T05:26:31","slug":"pilia-malenadu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pilia-malenadu\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilia malenadu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Pilia malenadu Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A team of researchers exploring biodiversity in the Western Ghats recently discovered a new species of spider named Pilia malenadu.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Pilia malenadu<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" 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; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>belongs to Pilia, a genus of jumping spiders.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in Madhugundi in the Mudigere taluk of Chikkamagaluru, <\/span><b>Karnataka, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the foothills of the <\/span><b>Western Ghats.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The researchers named it \u201cPilia malenadu\u201d, to give credit to the place it was found.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discovery is significant because the <\/span><b>last time a species of spiders belonging to<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>pilia genus was discovered<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was about <\/span><b>123 years ago (1902) in Kerala.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, the researchers, <\/span><b>for the first time, have found both male and female spiders of the species.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These spiders were <\/span><b>found in only two plant species \u2014 Memecylon umbellatum and Memecylon malabaricum. <\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">In fact, the spiders were <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">found concealed between the leaves of these plants.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/researchers-discover-new-species-of-spider-in-a-chikkamagaluru-village-name-it-after-malenadu\/article70236081.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilia malenadu is a new species of spider. Read more aboutPilia malenadu, Discovery, Habitat, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":71985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3550,246,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-71969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-pilia-malenadu","9":"tag-prelims-current-affairs","10":"tag-prelims-pointers","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\/71969","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=71969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}