{"id":83757,"date":"2026-01-22T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T07:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=83757"},"modified":"2026-01-22T16:16:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T10:46:03","slug":"metadon-ghorpadei-and-metadon-reemeri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/metadon-ghorpadei-and-metadon-reemeri\/","title":{"rendered":"Metadon Ghorpadei and Metadon Reemeri"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Metadon Ghorpadei and Metadon Reemeri Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers recently discovered two rare ant-fly species in India, Metadon ghorpadei and Metadon reemeri.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Metadon Ghorpadei and Metadon Reemeri<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are two new species of <\/span><b>ant flies.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These insects belong to the <\/span><b>Microdontinae subfamily of hoverflies.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Metadon ghorpadei<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was discovered in <\/span><b>Delhi\u2019s Northern Ridge Forest.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Metadon reemeri<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was found in the <\/span><b>Siruvani Hills of the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/western-ghats\/\" target=\"_blank\">Western Ghats<\/a>.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Globally, many <\/span><b>Microdontinae specie<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s are considered <\/span><b>rare or threatened<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> due to their <\/span><b>specialised habitat requirements <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and patchy distribution.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are known for their <\/span><b>unique association with ants,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as their <\/span><b>larvae live inside ant nests and feed on ant broods<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a specialised <\/span><b>behaviour called myrmecophily <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that makes them exceptionally rare and difficult to detect.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of the 454 species reported worldwide, only 27 are known from the Indian subcontinent.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/two-new-rare-ant-fly-species-discovered-in-delhi-and-western-ghats\/article70521626.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metadon ghorpadei and Metadon reemeri belong to the Microdontinae subfamily of hoverflies. Readd more about Metadon Ghorpadei and Metadon Reemeri, Discovery, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4880,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-83757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-metadon-ghorpadei-and-metadon-reemeri","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\/83757","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=83757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}