NEW SPIDER CRICKET
- May 29, 2021
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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NEW SPIDER CRICKET
Subject: Environment
Context: Recently, a team of zoologists headed by DrRanjanaJaiswara of the Zoology Department of Punjab University, Chandigarh has discovered a new spider cricket from Chhattisgarh.
Concept:
- It has been found in the Kurra caves of Chhattisgarh.
- The new subgenus was named Jayanti after Professor Jayant Biswas, one of the leading cave explorers in the country, who assisted the team.
- It has become the twelfth subgenus, or species, of cricket identified under the genus Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897.
Arachnomimus Saussure, 1897
- Arachnomimus is the genus name given by Swiss Entomologist Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure in 1878 to crickets that resembled spiders.
- The word Arachnomimus is derived from two Ancient Greek words arakhne means “spider” and mimos, means “imitator, actor”.
- It is apt because crickets of this group are commonly called spider crickets because of their smaller body size and long legs.