{"id":17276,"date":"2023-03-10T11:33:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T06:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/?p=17276"},"modified":"2023-06-26T06:21:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T00:51:57","slug":"mimeusemia-ceylonica","status":"publish","type":"current-affairs","link":"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/current-affairs\/mimeusemia-ceylonica","title":{"rendered":"Mimeusemia Ceylonica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Context:\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two researchers from Tamil Nadu have spotted <\/span><b>Mimeusemia ceylonica, a rare moth species<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the buffer zone of the Kalakkad\u2013Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17356 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/10.png 632w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/10-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/pwonlyias.com\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/10-360x203.png 360w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><i>Image Source: The Hindu<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>About Mimeusemia Ceylonica:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It belongs to the<\/span><b> subfamily Agaristinae<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>family Noctuidae<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was first illustrated by English entomologist<\/span><b> George Hampson <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1893.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The species was rediscovered during a moth survey conducted on October 11, 2020 at the Agasthyamalai Community Based Conservation Centre (ACCC) situated in the buffer zone of KMTR, Tirunelveli district.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is <\/span><b>deficient data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the history of this species.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Researchers could see only one moth on all these occasions and not as a pair and hence they did not try to do genitalia dissection to study it further.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>News Source: <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/moth-found-in-tirunelveli-thoothukudi-districts-after-127-years-photographed-for-first-time\/article66599716.ece#:~:text=Mimeusemia%20ceylonica%20is%20a%20moth,entomologist%20George%20Hampson%20in%201893.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b><i>The Hindu <\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Context:\u00a0 Two researchers from Tamil Nadu have spotted Mimeusemia ceylonica, a rare moth species in the buffer zone of the Kalakkad\u2013Mundanthurai Tiger Reserve (KMTR).\u00a0 Image Source: The Hindu About Mimeusemia Ceylonica: It belongs to the subfamily Agaristinae and family Noctuidae.\u00a0 It was first illustrated by English entomologist George Hampson in 1893.\u00a0 The species was rediscovered&hellip; 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