{"id":98809,"date":"2021-04-01T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T11:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=98809"},"modified":"2021-04-01T20:36:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:06:12","slug":"nacaduba-sinhala-the-new-butterfly-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nacaduba-sinhala-the-new-butterfly-species\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Nacaduba Sinhala&#8221; &#8211; the new butterfly species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A group of lepidopterists discovered a new species of butterfly. It is called \u201cNacaduba Sinhala Ramaswamii Sadasivan\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note: <\/strong>A lepidopterist is a person who specializes in studying butterflies and moths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Nacaduba Sinhala<\/strong> <strong>Butterfly Species:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-99084\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nacaduba-Sinhala.png?resize=353%2C352&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Nacaduba Sinhala \" width=\"353\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nacaduba-Sinhala.png?w=426&amp;ssl=1 426w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nacaduba-Sinhala.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Nacaduba-Sinhala.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nacaduba Sinhala <\/strong>is a Line Blue Butterfly Species that belongs to the Nacaduba genus group.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Line Blues <\/strong>are small butterflies belonging to the subfamily Lycaenidae. Their distribution ranges from India and Sri Lanka to the whole of southeastern Asia, Australia and Samoa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where was it discovered?<\/strong> This butterfly species was discovered in the Agasthyamalai in the Western Ghats a decade ago. But now it found a place in the Journal of Threatened Taxa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Significance: <\/strong>It is the first time that a butterfly species was discovered by an all-Indian research team from the Western Ghats.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Journal of Threatened Taxa(JoTT):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Journal of Threatened Taxa(JoTT) <\/strong>is an open-access peer-reviewed, monthly international journal on conservation and taxonomy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Published by: <\/strong>The journal is published by the wildlife conservation and research NGO Zoo Outreach Organisation (ZOO).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GDO8E9UCT.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? A group of lepidopterists discovered a new species of butterfly. It is called \u201cNacaduba Sinhala Ramaswamii Sadasivan\u201d. Note: A lepidopterist is a person who specializes in studying butterflies and moths. About the Nacaduba Sinhala Butterfly Species: Nacaduba Sinhala is a Line Blue Butterfly Species that belongs to the Nacaduba genus group.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/nacaduba-sinhala-the-new-butterfly-species\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Nacaduba Sinhala&#8221; &#8211; the new butterfly species<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[1316],"class_list":["post-98809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-env_2","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98809","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\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}