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Colyttus bilineatus was documented at Loharbond in Cachar district’s Inner Line Reserved Forest, bordering Mizoram and Manipur. The record was made by research scholar Monica Chetry and her supervisor Parthankar Choudhury, dean of E P Odum School of Environmental Sciences, Assam University, in collaboration with arachnologist John T D Caleb of Saveetha University, Chennai.
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“We are very excited to have found this new spider whose shape is very similar to the magical sorting hat worn by the wizard (Gryffindor) in Harry Potter. The discovery was done in the Kans forest area of Karnataka,“ said Javed Ahmed. He said the spider's shape allowed it to resemble a dried leaf, and protect itself from predators. The same team had previously described five new spider species in the last two years. | “We are very excited to have found this new spider whose shape is very similar to the magical sorting hat worn by the wizard (Gryffindor) in Harry Potter. The discovery was done in the Kans forest area of Karnataka,“ said Javed Ahmed. He said the spider's shape allowed it to resemble a dried leaf, and protect itself from predators. The same team had previously described five new spider species in the last two years. | ||
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[edit] Colyttus bilineatus/ jumping spider
January 31, 2026: The Times of India
Silchar: Researchers from Assam University, Silchar, have recorded a rare species of jumping spider for the first time in India, adding to the country’s biodiversity list and highlighting the scientific value of southern Assam’s forests, reports B B Goswami .
Colyttus bilineatus was documented at Loharbond in Cachar district’s Inner Line Reserved Forest, bordering Mizoram and Manipur. The record was made by research scholar Monica Chetry and her supervisor Parthankar Choudhury, dean of E P Odum School of Environmental Sciences, Assam University, in collaboration with arachnologist John T D Caleb of Saveetha University, Chennai.
Until now, Colyttus bilineatus was known only to be in southeast Asian counries including Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.
[edit] Eriovixia gryffindori
Vijay Singh, Spider named after Potter character, Dec 12, 2016: The Times of India
A new spider species discovered by Mumbai researchers in the central western ghats in Karnataka has been named after a popular wizard in the Harry Potter books, mainly because it resembles the magical hat worn by the wizard.
The spider, which measures barely 7mm in length, has been scientifically named Eriovixia gryffindori, after the fictitious wizard, Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry , in J K Rowling's series of books on boy wizard, Harry Potter.
The finding was published in the Indian Journal of Arachnology . The credit for this spider discovery goes to researchers Javed Ahmed, Rajashree Khalap and Sumukha Javagal.
“We are very excited to have found this new spider whose shape is very similar to the magical sorting hat worn by the wizard (Gryffindor) in Harry Potter. The discovery was done in the Kans forest area of Karnataka,“ said Javed Ahmed. He said the spider's shape allowed it to resemble a dried leaf, and protect itself from predators. The same team had previously described five new spider species in the last two years.
