Money spiders, commonly found in European meadows, have been reported for the first time in the country from the Muthanga range of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. The species is called so as it is \u201cbelieved to bring luck\u201d to the person who comes in contact with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researchers of Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Thrissur, have discovered the spider that belongs to the family of dwarf spiders ( Linyphiidae<\/em>) under the genus Prosoponoides<\/em>. It has been given the name Prosoponoides biflectogynus<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOnly six species of spiders belonging to this genus have been identified from across the world so far. It is the first report\u00a0of\u00a0this genus from India and hence no extensive studies have been conducted on this species of spiders in\u00a0the country,\u201d\u00a0said Dr. Sudhikumar A.V., Head, Department of Zoology, Christ College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kerala \/ th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Discovery by researchers of Christ College, Irinjalakuda Money spiders, commonly found in European meadows, have been reported for the first time in the country from the Muthanga range of the Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary. The species is called so as it is \u201cbelieved to bring luck\u201d to the person who comes in contact with it. Researchers of … Continue reading ** Money spider, ant-mimicking spider discovered at Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,2,4,6,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-amazing-feats","category-business-economy","category-green-products","category-nature","category-records-india-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15428,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15426\/revisions\/15428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}