{"id":362530,"date":"2026-05-09T12:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=362530"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:09:43","slug":"attenboroughnculus-tau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attenboroughnculus-tau\/","title":{"rendered":"Attenboroughnculus Tau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>News: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom, have discovered a new species of wasp in Chile and named it Attenboroughnculus tau.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Attenboroughnculus Tau<\/b><\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/full-wasp-trustees-of-the-natural-history-museum-20260507161817970.jpg?resize=246%2C138&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\" Attenborough Tau\" width=\"246\" height=\"138\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: CNN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a<\/span><b> tiny parasitic wasp<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> discovered in<\/span><b> Chile.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was collected from<\/span><b> Chile\u2019s Valdivia Province in 1983<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been named after the famed British naturalist and broadcaster <\/span><b>Sir David Attenborough.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Features:\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Size:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It is a small wasp,<\/span><b> measuring about 3.5 millimetres.<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a<\/span><b> T-shaped marking on its abdomen<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that inspired the species name, <\/span><b>\u201ctau.\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a <\/span><b>unique combination of anatomical features <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that make it different from already established genera.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a<\/span><b> strongly curved abdominal segment, toothlike structures on the ovipositor<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (which they use to lay eggs), and <\/span><b>distinctive wing and leg morphology.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Scientists at the Natural History Museum in London, United Kingdom, have discovered a new species of wasp in Chile and named it Attenboroughnculus tau. About Attenboroughnculus Tau It is a tiny parasitic wasp discovered in Chile.\u00a0 It was collected from Chile\u2019s Valdivia Province in 1983. It has been named after the famed British naturalist&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/attenboroughnculus-tau\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Attenboroughnculus Tau<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,12039,11834],"tags":[11872,10504],"class_list":["post-362530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-knolls","category-species-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-down-to-earth","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362530","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\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}