Two new species of ants discovered from Kerala and Tamil Nadu

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two new species of ants discovered from kerala and tamil nadu Daily Current Affairs Article 25th January 2021: Two new species of a rare ant genus have been discovered in Kerala and Tamil Nadu by a team of scientists.

One of them found in the Periyar Tiger Reserve of Kerala, has been named Ooceraea joshii, in honour of Prof. Amitabh Joshi, a distinguished evolutionary biologist from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) an autonomous institute of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India.

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The newly discovered ant species with ten segmented antennae discovered, establish an old world lineage that contains a species emerging as the only model organism among the ant subfamily.

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