Priyan’s research interests include conservation biology, insect biosystematics and conservation bio-control. A trained taxonomist and ecologist, he has authored two books, more than 50 research papers, several popular articles and described 40 species new to science. He is a member of various national and international scientific and academic bodies and is on the board of editors of many journals. In the last three years, he has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Freshwater Group at the Society for Conservation Biology.

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(Dec, 2024)

(2024)

Discovery of the Subfamily Microleptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) From India and Thailand With the Description of Five New Species

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Comics

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(Oct, 2024)

(2024)

Poo Patrol!

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(Oct, 2024)

(2024)

Description of a New Species of Potter Wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) From Northeast India

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(Sep, 2024)

(2024)

Study on the Genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, With Three New Species From India

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(Aug, 2024)

(2024)

Aenictus kodaguensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a unique species from India

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(May, 2024)

(2024)

A Remarkable New Species of Paraparatrechina Donisthorpe (1947) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) From the Eastern Himalayas, India

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(Mar, 2024)

(2024)

Additions to the Trigonalyid (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) Fauna of India With the Description of a New Species From South India

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(Jan, 2024)

(2024)

Dung Removal Increases Under Higher Dung Beetle Functional Diversity Regardless of Grazing Intensification

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(Nov, 2023)

(2023)

A new genus and two new species of Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from the Oriental region

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(Nov, 2023)

(2023)

A New Species of Army Ant Genus Aenictus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India

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(Oct, 2023)

(2023)

Two New Reports of Stigmatomma Roger, 1859 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae) Species from the Indian Subcontinent

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

A New Species of Chalcis Fabricius (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) From South India

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

Phylogeny of the Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new tribal order!

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Popular Articles

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

First report of two eulophid genera (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Eulophidae) from India with the description of two new species

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

First new genus of wasps found in South India, named after Soliga tribe – Times of India

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

Soliga ecarinata: Meet the new wasp genus

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

New wasp genus discovered at B.R. Hills – Star of Mysore

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

Scientists discover Soliga ecarinata, new genus of wasps

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

New genus of wasp named after Soliga community in Karnataka – The Hindu

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

Discovery of the Darwin wasp subfamily Lycorininae Cushman & Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from India with description of a new species from Kashmir

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Popular Articles

Popular Articles

(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

Egg shortage: Can insects be an alternative for protein, nutrition?

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Popular Articles

(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

A Safari through the world of ants

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(Sep, 2023)

(2023)

New subgeneric reports of the genus Chelonus (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from India and Sri Lanka with description of nine species

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(Jul, 2023)

(2023)

A new genus in the braconid subfamily Miracinae from the Oriental region, with descriptions of seven new species from India and Sri Lanka

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(May, 2022)

(2022)

Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Northeast India – Patterns and gaps in discovery

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(Feb, 2022)

(2022)

First description of the metopiine genus Trieces Townes, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Indomalayan region with three new species from India

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(Jan, 2022)

(2022)

Kerevata Belokobylskij (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rogadinae) is no longer a Papua New Guinean endemic with descriptions of three new species from the Indomalayan Region

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