{"id":86708,"date":"2019-04-06T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2019-04-06T16:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T10:38:07","slug":"kerala-forests-home-to-new-spider-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-forests-home-to-new-spider-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala forests home to new spider species"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A new species of jumping spiders has been spotted\nin Illithodu forests, Kerala. <\/li><li>An analysis of the spiders has revealed that\nthey belong to the genus Habrocestum. Species of the genus Habrocestum has been\nrecorded mostly in Eurasia and Africa. It is the first time that species\nbelonging to this genus has been found in India.<\/li><li>Comparisons with European Habrocestum spiders has\nrevealed that the spiders found Illithodu forest are a new species altogether.\nThis is because they have distinctly different reproductive organs.<\/li><li>The spider species has a single long spine on\nthe underside of both its first legs. It has thus been named Habrocestum\nlongispinum (after Latin \u2018longe\u2019 meaning long and \u2018spinae\u2019 for spine).<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new species of jumping spiders has been spotted in Illithodu forests, Kerala. An analysis of the spiders has revealed that they belong to the genus Habrocestum. Species of the genus Habrocestum has been recorded mostly in Eurasia and Africa. It is the first time that species belonging to this genus has been found in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/kerala-forests-home-to-new-spider-species\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kerala forests home to new spider species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4182],"tags":[4284],"class_list":["post-86708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-spider-species","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704471637},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86708","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}