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Soliga ecarinata
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- The scientific community has named a new genus of wasp after Soliga — who are the indigenous community of Biligiri Rangan Hills, Karnataka.
- This is the recognition of their conservation of forests and biodiversity.
- Additional specimens of the same species were collected from the secondary wet forest habitat of Nagaland.
- This new wasp belongs to the subfamily Metopiinae of Darwin wasps’ family Ichneumonidae.
- The subfamily Metopiinae has 862 species in 27 genera.
- This is the second genus of this subfamily reported from India and the first from South India.
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