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Sahoo, Bikash and R, Sahanashree and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Datta Roy, Aniruddha (2025) First Confirmed Record of Aenictus piercei Wheeler and Chapman 1930, and a New Record of Aenictus hodgsoni Forel 1901, from Mainland India. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 27 (3). pp. 445-453. ISSN 2651-3579

Sengupta, Asmita and Gudasalamani, Ravikanth and Kadaba Shamanna, Seshadri and Bunyan, Milind and T, Ganesh and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and M, Soubadra Devy and NA, Aravind (2025) The Shifting Paradigms of Biodiversity Conservation in South Asia. Biotropica, 57: e70013.

AP, Ranjith and Humala, Andrei E. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Butcher, Buntika A. (2024) Discovery of the subfamily Microleptinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from India and Thailand with the description of five new species. Journal of Hymenoptera Research, 97. pp. 1257-1284.

Femi, Benny E. and AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2024) Description of a new species of potter wasp (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Eumeninae) from northeast India. Entomon, 49 (3). pp. 465-470.

Seena Narayanan, Karimbumkara and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2024) Study on the genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, with three new species from India. European Journal of Taxonomy (956). pp. 1-61. ISSN 2118-9773

Sahoo, Bikash and R, Sahanashree and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Datta Roy, Aniruddha (2024) Aenictus kodaguensis sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), a unique species from India. Asian Myrmecology, 17: E017003.

Boyane, Swapnil S. and Sen, Sandeep and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Thunga, Pavan Kumar and Josh, Nikhil U. and Ghate, Hemant V. (2024) Integrative taxonomy of the genus Coridius Illiger, 1807 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Dinidoridae) reveals hidden diversity and three new species from North-East India. PLoS ONE, 19 (7): e0298176.

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Punnath, Aswaj and R, Sahanashree (2024) A remarkable new species of Paraparatrechina Donisthorpe (1947) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Formicinae) from the Eastern Himalayas, India. ZooKeys, 1203. pp. 159-172.

Femi, Benny E. and AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2024) Additions to the trigonalyid (Hymenoptera: Trigonalyidae) fauna of India with the description of a new species from south India. Zootaxa, 5419 (9). pp. 265-274.

AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2024) A remarkable rediscovery and range extension from Australia to South India with the description of two new species of the genus Shortia Gauld, 1984 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae). European Journal of Taxonomy, 921. pp. 158-172.

TS, Sonu and Farhadinia, Mohammed S. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2024) Assessment of regional flood vulnerability: a case of Kuttanad Wetland System, Kerala, India. Regional Statistics, 14 (5). pp. 970-1005.

AP, Ranjith and Varghese, Ayiswarya S and Balachandran, Niveditha and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2023) A new species of Aphanogmus Thomson (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae) parasitising predatory cecidomyiids in mite-induced galls of Pongamia pinnata in India. Journal Of Natural History, 57 (41–44). pp. 1963-1971.

Quicke, Donald L. J. and Jasso-Martínez, Jovana M. and AP, Ranjith and Sharkey, Michael J. and Manjunath, Ramya and Naik, Suresh and N. Hebert, Paul D. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Thurman, Jessa and Butcher, Buntika A. (2023) Phylogeny of the Braconinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A new tribal order. Systematic Entomology, 49 (3).

AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2023) A new species of Chalcis Fabricius (Hymenoptera, Chalcididae) from south India. Entomon, 48 (3).

Quicke, Donald L. J. and AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and M, Nasser and Hebert, Paul D N. and Butcher, Buntika A. (2023) Two new genera and one new species of the tribe Adeshini (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Braconinae) from India and South Africa. ZooKeys, 1166. pp. 235-259.

R, Sahanashree and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2023) A Safari Through the World of Ants. JLR Explore.

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and AP, Ranjith (2023) New wasp genus discovered at B.R. Hills. Star of Mysore.

Ari Noriega, Jorge and Hortal, Joaquín and deCastro-Arrazola, Indradatta and Alves-Martins, Fernanda and G. Ortega, Jean C. and Mauricio Bini, Luis and Andrew, Nigel R. and Arellano, Lucrecia and Burthe, Sarah J. and V. Davis, Adrian L. and Favila, Mario E. and Floate, Kevin D. and Horgan, Finbarr G. and Menéndez, Rosa and Wassmer, Tanja and Nervo, Beatrice and Palestrini, Claudia and Rolando, Antonio and Scholtz, Clarke H. and Senyüz, Yakup and Wassmer, Thomas and Ádam, Réka and Araújo, Cristina de O. and Barragan-Ramírez, José Luis and Boros, Gergely and Camero-Rubio, Edgar and Cruz, Melvin and Cuesta, Eva and Pieri Damborsky, Miryam and Deschodt, Christian M. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and D’hondt, Bram and Díaz Rojas, Alfonso and Dindar, Kemal and Escobar, Federico and Espinoza, Verónica R. and Rafael Ferrer-Paris, José and Enrique Gutiérrez Rojas, Pablo and Hemmings, Zac and Hernández, Benjamín and Hill, Sarah J. and Hoffmann, Maurice and Jay-Robert, Pierre and Lewis, Kyle and Lewis, Megan and Lozano, Cecilia and Marín-Armijos, Diego and Menegaz de Farias, Patrícia and Murcia-Ordoñez, Betselene and Narayanan Karimbumkara, Seena and Navarrete-Heredia, José Luis and Ortega-Echeverría, Candelaria and Pablo-Cea, José D. and Perrin, William and Bruno Pessoa, Marcelo and Radhakrishnan, Anu and Rahimi, Iraj and Teresa Raimundo, Amalia and Catalina Ramos, Diana and Rebolledo, Ramón E. and Roggero, Angela and Sánchez-Mercado, Ada and Somay, László and Stadler, Jutta and Tahmasebi, Pejman and Darwin Triana Céspedes, José and C. Santos, Ana M. (2023) Dung removal increases under higher dung beetle functional diversity regardless of grazing intensification. Nature Communications, 14.

R, Sahanashree and Punnath, Aswaj and Marathe, Aniruddha and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2023) Two New Reports of Stigmatomma Roger, 1859 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae) Species from the Indian Subcontinent. Sociobiology, 70 (40): e9315.

AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2022) A new Darwin wasp genus, Soliga (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Metopiinae), from India. European Journal of Taxonomy, 852 (1). pp. 57-76. ISSN 2118-9773

Haridas, Sneha and Malhotra, Harsha and Narayanan Karimbumkara, Seena and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2022) Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of Northeast India – Patterns and gaps in discovery. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 32 (1). pp. 26-36. ISSN 2147-7612

AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2022) First description of the metopiine genus Trieces Townes, 1946 (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Indomalayan region with three new species from India. European Journal of Taxonomy, 794:. ISSN 2118-9773

AP, Ranjith and Cornelis Van, Achterberg and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2022) Atree, a remarkable new genus of the subfamily Brachistinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) and the first report of the tribe Diospilini from India. Zootaxa, 4: 5105. pp. 571-580.

Ramalingam, Ravi and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2021) Habitat quality and edge area of fragments determine insect diversity in a heavily used landscape: Implications for forest landscape restoration. Biotropica, 54 (1). pp. 1-7.

Aswaj, Punnath and R, Sahanashree and Sudesh Udayakantha, Warnakulasuriyage and Aniruddha, Marathe and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2021) Two new species of doryline ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) with 11-segmented antennae from India. ZooKeys, 1056. pp. 59-72.

Aswaj, Punnath and Anoop, Karunakaran and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2021) Description of two new species of ants of the genus Myrmecina Curtis, 1829 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Eastern Himalayas. Zootaxa, 4990 (1). pp. 160-171.

Rai, Nitin D and M, Soubadra Devy and T, Ganesh and Rengaian, Ganesan and R, Siddappa Setty and Hiremath, Ankila J. and Khaling, Sarala and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2021) Beyond fortress conservation: The long-term integration of natural and social science research for an inclusive conservation practice in India. Biological Conservation, 254 (3).

Boyane, Swapnil S. and Subba, Barkha and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Ghate, Hemant V. (2020) First illustrated report of Batocera lineolata Chevrolat, 1852 (Cerambycidae, Lamiinae, Batocerini) from India. Check List, 16 (6). pp. 1609-1613.

Aswaj, Punnath and Anoop, Karunakaran and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2020) First record of the rarely collected ant Protanilla gengma Xu, 2012 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Leptanillinae) from the Indian subcontinent. Check List, 16 (6). pp. 1621-1625.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2020) Advancing Taxonomy in the Global South and completing the Grand Linnaean Enterprise. Megataxa, 1 (1). ISSN 2703-3090

Marathe, Aniruddha and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Krishnaswamy, Jagdish and Shanker, Kartik (2020) Spatial and climatic variables independently drive elevational gradients in ant species richness in the Eastern Himalaya. PLOS ONE, 15: e0227628.

AP, Ranjith and Fernandez-Triana, Jose and T., Veena and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and M, Nasser (2019) Four new species of Philoplitis Nixon (Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with an updated key and illustrations of all described species. ZooKeys, 841. pp. 125-150.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2019) Convention on Biological Diversity. Economic & Political Weekly, 3.

Ranjith, Avunjikkattu P. and Cornelis Van, Achterberg and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Kwon, Kim and Rajmohana, Kelothe and Mukundan, Shweta and M, Nasser (2018) First Indian record of Centistidea Rohwer (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Miracinae) with description of eight new species. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 50 (3).

AP, Ranjith and Yao, Junli and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Quicke, Donald L. J. and M, Nasser (2018) Revision of Dolabraulax Quicke (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) with the description of three new species from south India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 21 (2). pp. 538-547.

Marathe, Aniruddha and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2018) Quantitative inventories of ants from India: gaps, prospects and recommendations. Current Science, 114 (4).

Lele, Sharachchandra and Madhyastha, Karthik and Sulagna, Swati and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Srinivasan, Veena (2018) Match, don’t mix: implications of institutional and technical service modalities for water governance outcomes in south Indian small towns. Water Policy, 20 (S1): wp2018002.

Ramalingam, Ravi and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2017) Effects of various urban land-uses on the epigeic beetle communities in Bangalore city, India. Tropical Ecology, 58 (2). pp. 295-305. ISSN 0564-3295

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Raghavan, Rajeev (2017) Linking rivers, barrages and fish migration. Current Science, 112 (9).

Narayanan Karimbumkara, Seena and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2016) Report of dung beetles (Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) attracted to unconventional resources, with the description of three new species. Entomon, 41 (4). pp. 265-282.

Carter, Gregory A. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2015) Descriptions of Psychodidae (Diptera) from the Western Ghats of India. Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 55 (2). pp. 473-483.

N, Sapna Bai and TO, Sasidharan and OK, Remadevi and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2015) Biocontrol Potential of Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.) Sorokin (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) against Ailanthus Defoliator, Eligma narcissus (Cram.). Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 5 (1). ISSN 2235-9370

Ramalingam, Ravi and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2015) Needs for policy on landscape restoration in India. Current Science, 108 (7). pp. 1208-1209.

AP, Ranjith and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and M, Nasser (2015) Revision of Buluka de Saeger (Hymenoptera: Microgastrinae) with the Description of One New Species from South India. Biosystematica, 9 (1&2). ISSN 0973-7871

N, Sapna Bai and OK, Remadevi and TO, Sasidharan and M, Balachander and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2014) Cuticle degrading enzyme production by some isolates of the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.). Journal of Bio-Science, 20. pp. 25-32. ISSN 1023-8654

N, Sapna Bai and OK, Remadevi and TO, Sasidharan and M, Balachander and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2014) Pathogenicity of Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) Isolates to the Ailanthus Webworm, Atteva fabriciella (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) Under Laboratory and Field Conditions. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 33 (1). pp. 73-86. ISSN 1054-9811

OK, Remadevi and N, Sapna Bai and TO, Sasidharan and M, Balachander and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2013) Attempts at controlling Teak Defoliator ( Hyblaea puera Cramer, Lepidoptera, Hyblaeidae) with the entomopathogenic fungus, Metarhizium anisopliae (Metsch.): laboratory, nursery and field trials. International Journal of Pest Management, 59 (3). pp. 236-242. ISSN 0967-0874

N, Sapna Bai and OK, Remadevi and TO, Sasidharan and M, Balachander and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2013) Bioefficacy of Metarhizium anisopliae isolates against teak skeletoniser Paliga machoeralis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 25 (3). pp. 310-316.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2011) Biological Diversity: A Common Heritage. Economic and Political Weekly, 46 (14). pp. 15-17.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2011) Biodiversity access and benefit-sharing: weaving a rope of sand. Current Science, 100 (3). pp. 290-293.

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and KD, Prathapan (2010) Water in a sieve. down to earth.

OK, Remadevi and TO, Sasidharan and Bhattacharya, Jayeeta and Vossbrinck, Charles R. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2010) Some pathological effects and transmission potential of a microsporidian isolate (Nosema sp.) from the teak defoliator Hyblaea puera (Lepidoptera: Hyblaeidae). International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 30 (3). pp. 138-144.

Bhaskaran, Aditya and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2010) Advancing the science of taxonomy in India. Current Science, 99 (2). pp. 157-158.

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2010) Let the genes cross borders. Down to Earth, 18 (16).

N, Sapna Bai and TO, Sasidharan and OK, Remadevi and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and M, Balachander (2010) Virulence of Metarhizium isolates against the polyphagous defoliator pest, Spilarctia obliqua (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Journal of Tropical Forest Science, 22 (1). pp. 74-80.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and J, Poorani (2009) Protectionism and natural history research in India. Current Science, 97 (10). pp. 1411-1413.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2009) Biological Diversity Act, 2002: threat to agricultural production and food security. Current Science, 97 (5).

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Ramalingam, Ravi (2009) Ground insect community responses to habitat restoration efforts in the Attappady hills, Western Ghats, India. Current Science, 97 (6). pp. 935-941.

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and TC, Narendran and CA, Viraktamath and NA, Aravind and J, Poorani (2008) Death sentence on taxonomy in India. Current Science, 94 (2).

PA, Sinu and Nasser, M. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2007) Host searching behavior and potential of an aquatic ichneumonid pupal parasitoid of rice caseworm (Parapoynx stagnalis) in an upland rice paddy agro-ecosystem of the Western Ghats, India. Biocontrol Science and Technology, 17 (10). pp. 1037-1045. ISSN 0958-3157

KD, Prathapan and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and TC, Narendran and CA, Viraktamath and KA, Subramanian and NA, Aravind and J, Poorani (2006) Biological Diversity Act, 2002: Shadow of permit-raj over research. Current Science, 91 (8).

MD, Madhusudan and Shanker, Kartik and Kumar, Ajith and Mishra, Charudutt and Sinha, Anindya and Arthur, Rohan and Datta, Aparajita and Rangarajan, Mahesh and Chellam, Ravi and Shahabuddin, Ghazala and Shankar, Ravi and Singh, Mewa and Ramakrishnan, Uma and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2006) Science in the wilderness: the predicament of scientific research in India’s wildlife reserves. Current Science, 91 (8). pp. 1015-1019.

PA, Sinu and Nasser, M. and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2006) Feeding Fauna and Foraging Habits of Tiger Beetles Found in Agro‐ecosystems in Western Ghats, India 1. Biotropica, 38 (4). pp. 500-507. ISSN 0006-3606

Zacharias, Merry and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2004) Vombisidris humboldticola (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a new arboreal ant species from an Indian ant plant. Current Science, 87 (10). pp. 1337-1338.

Zacharias, Merry and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan (2004) Discothyrea sringerensis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) a new ant species from India. Zootaxa, 484 (1). ISSN 1175-5326

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and KN, Ganeshaiah and R, Uma Shaanker and Ali, Mushtak T. M. and A.R.V., Kumar and K., Chandrashekara (2001) Impact of human-induced disturbance on the diversity of dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidaae). Journal of Bombay Natural History Society, 96. pp. 106-110.

Book Section

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Radhakrishnan, Anu and Narayanan Karimbumkara, Seena (2017) Conserving the less-charismatic: Making conservation inclusive for insect diversity. In: Transcending boundaries Reflecting on twenty years of action and research at ATREE. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), pp. 156-161.

Rengaian, Ganesan and NA, Aravind and Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Gudasalamani, Ravikanth (2017) The nitty gritty of a name: Systematic biology and conservation. In: Transcending boundaries. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE).

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Marathe, Aniruddha (2016) Ant diversity responses to changing land-use forms in the central Western Ghats (Karnataka, India). In: Invertebrate Diversity and Conservation in the Western Ghats. Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment (ATREE), pp. 153-162.

Conference or Workshop Item

Dharma Rajan, Priyadarsanan and Purushothaman, Seema and Krishnan, Siddhartha and MC, Kiran and D., Deepak and TD, Jojo (2008) Strengthening Communities and Institutions for Sustainable Management of Vembanad Backwaters, Kerala. In: Proceedings of Taal2007: The 12th World Lake Conference, 2008.