{"id":86710,"date":"2026-02-08T11:59:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=86710"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T10:16:49","slug":"polyrhachis-garbhangaensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/polyrhachis-garbhangaensis\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyrhachis garbhangaensis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Polyrhachis garbhangaensis Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Garbhanga Reserve Forest on the outskirts of Guwahati has yielded a newly identified ant species named Polyrhachis garbhangaensis.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Polyrhachis garbhangaensis<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>new species of an<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was discovered in <\/span><b>Garbhanga Reserve Forest<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the<\/span><b> outskirts of Guwahati, Assam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been named after its place of discovery and is proposed to be known as the <\/span><b>\u201cAssamese Spiny Ant.\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to a rare and specialised<\/span><b> group of spiny ants<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> called the <\/span><b>mucronata group.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is only the third species of this group ever recorded in India.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At about 5.6 millimetres long, the Assamese Spiny Ant is <\/span><b>visually striking.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike its close relatives, which are usually black, this species has a <\/span><b>bright yellow-orange abdomen.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also has <\/span><b>curved spines on its body <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that likely help protect it from predators.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/city\/guwahati\/discovery-of-ant-species-in-garbhanga-underscores-urban-forest-biodiversity\/articleshow\/128044236.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TOI<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyrhachis garbhangaensis is a newly discovered spiny ant from Assam\u2019s Garbhanga Reserve Forest, belonging to the rare mucronata group. Read more about Polyrhachis garbhangaensis, Latest News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5238,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-86710","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-polyrhachis-garbhangaensis","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\/86710","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=86710"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86758,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86710\/revisions\/86758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}