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Another types of insect, which impersonates the attributes of ants, has been found in the damp deciduous timberland of the Wayanad untamed life haven. 

This insect, which lives alongside ants in the ridged bark of huge trees, is hard to separate from ants. 

The incline male bug just about looks like slim subterranean insect (Tetraponera rufonigra), said A.V. Sudhikumar, head of Center for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE) of Christ College, Irinjalakuda, close Thrissur, who drove the group of analysts. 

"It's raised front legs amid development emulates the recieving wires of the insect. The creepy crawly utilizes this (Batesian mimicry) to escape from predators. As discovered just with ants, it is exceptionally hard to recognize this creepy crawly in a gathering of ants. If there should be an occurrence of aggravation, it conceals itself in the hole of tree rind," he said. It nourishes on moment creepy crawlies present in the cleft of tree covering. 

This creepy crawly has a place with Aetius class of the subterranean insect copying arachnid family Corinidae. 

Despite the fact that there are more than 200 assortment of insect mirroring bugs, this is first time an arachnid, which is such a great amount of like a subterranean insect, is being found, by. 

The analysts noticed that the mating procedure of the arachnid is likewise intriguing. 

"Contrasted with different individuals from the insect mirroring bug family, the regenerative organs of male bug will lump and pivot amid the way toward mating. The body of this creepy crawly is dull with white and orange tinges. 

The male creepy crawly, which has white spines in its stomach locale moves quickly alongside ants. It is hard to separate this creepy crawly from ants because of this quickness," said Mr. Sudhikumar 

The anticipated white spines from the tip of the stomach area precisely look like the thorny spine of ants. 

This special creepy crawly has been together found by analysts of the Center for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE) of Christ College, Irinjalakuda, and the Oxford Museum of Natural History, London. 

Funder by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, the study was a piece of a task to investigate the differing qualities of insects in Kerala woodlands. 

The study was driven by Dr. Sudhikumar , head of CATE and Zoe Simmons of Oxford Museum of Natural History alongside the examination researchers Sudhin P.P. also, K.S. Nafin. 

This study will be distributed in the approaching volume of Zootaxa, a universal science diary.