{"id":333356,"date":"2025-04-18T17:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T11:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=333356"},"modified":"2025-04-21T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T04:48:35","slug":"clinidium-lalitae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/clinidium-lalitae\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinidium lalitae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: New beetle species<\/strong> discovered in Northeast by ZSI scientists.<\/p>\n<h2>About Clinidium lalitae<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a new <strong>species of beetle<\/strong> belonging to the subfamily <strong>Rhysodinae<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has been discovered in the <strong>Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary<\/strong> in <strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The species has been named to honor <strong> Lalita Ray Chaudhury<\/strong>, who dedicated her career to the study of beetles.<\/li>\n<li>It is characterised by its <strong>unique morphology<\/strong> and belongs to a <strong>rare group<\/strong> of ground beetles that <strong>inhabit forest floors<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These beetles play a significant ecological role in <strong>nutrient cycling and soil health<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is located at <strong>Lower Subansiri<\/strong> district of <strong>Arunachal Pradesh<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>plateau<\/strong> region located at an altitude of 2400 m.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rivers:<\/strong> Pange, Sipu, Karing and <strong>Subansiri<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flora:<\/strong> The sanctuaty comprises of <strong>sub-tropical and alpine forests<\/strong> and harbours <strong>broadleaved and conifer forests<\/strong> with vegetation of <strong>silver fir, pine trees,<\/strong> <strong>ferns, orchids, bamboo, and rhododendron.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pleioblastus simone<\/strong> is a <strong>bamboo<\/strong> variety only found in Talley Valley.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fauna:<\/strong> <strong>Clouded leopard<\/strong>, elephants, Barking Deer,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Malayan giant squirrel, Indian muntjac and Asian palm civet.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: New beetle species discovered in Northeast by ZSI scientists. About Clinidium lalitae It is a new species of beetle belonging to the subfamily Rhysodinae. It has been discovered in the Talle Valley Wildlife Sanctuary in Arunachal Pradesh. The species has been named to honor Lalita Ray Chaudhury, who dedicated her career to the study&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/clinidium-lalitae\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Clinidium lalitae<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10393,"featured_media":333570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,12039,11834],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-333356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Clinidium-lalitae.png?fit=1280%2C850&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}