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New species of fly named after Singanallur Tank Updated: Updated: The insect has been named Asphondylia singanallurensis Share Article The insect has been named Asphondylia singanallurensis A new species of fly, which was recently identified by researchers at the Singanallur Tank, has been named after the water body. The insect was named Asphondylia singanallurensis in the research paper published in the Zootaxa journal in March 2020. The authors said in the paper that they collected the leaves of jujube shrub ( Ziziphus jujuba) growing near the Singanallur Tank during their field visits be...

The species was identified by the members of ZSI and CUBE and the team comprises Vasanthakumar, Senthilkumar Palanisamy, Vinny R Peter, and Radheshyam M Sharma. COIMBATORE: During a field visit in 2015, a researcher from the Western regional centre of the Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) Durai Vasanthakumar and his team spotted a small bulge along the middle vein of one of the leaves of ziziphus mauritiana (Indian jujube) near Singanallur lake, Coimbatore. Little did they know that they had identified a new species, which would later be named after them. While collecting and preserving the l...