A research team of the Shadpada Entomology Research Lab (SERL) of Christ College Irinjalakuda, has found a rare species of Osmylidae or lance lacewing from Janakikadu in Kozhikode district.
The species Spilosmylus tuberculatus has been discovered for the first time in the Western Ghats. Also this forms the first record of Osmylidae family (lance lacewing) in the Western Ghats, say doctoral scholar Suryanarayanan T. B. and research supervisor Bijoy C., Assistant Professor at the college.
