ZSI Scientist Profile

Dr. Prakash Chand Pathania

Scientist-E

Highest Academic degree, year

Ph.D.; 2003

Department/Division

High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Solan-173211, H.P., India

Email Address

pathaniapc@yahoo.co.in

Phone Number

9463016849

Area of Expertise

Taxonomy: Lepidoptera: Microlepidoptera

Experience after Ph. D.

20 years

Significant Achievements

-Discovered thirty-fournew species of Microlepidoptera from India.

-Fivebooks, twelve book chapters and three important Catalogues on Superfamily Pterophoroidea& on families Tortricidaeand Lecithoceridaeof Microlepidoptera were published.

- More than five thousand specimens of Microlepidoptera families has been collected  from India

-Five Major Research projects on the biodiversity of Insects funded by ICAR,UGC& DST, New Delhi were completed successfully.

-Young Scientist Awards (02)-(UPZS &DST) and Fellow of the Him Science Congress Association (HSCA)

Mentorship

Supervising 02 PhD students; 02M.Phil and 03 MSc students completed their research work.

Research Focus

-Taxonomy and classification ofLepidoptera (Microlepidoptera)

- Survey-cum-collection of insects of order Lepidoptera

-Species diversity and distribution patterns

- Phylogenetic studies amongdifferent taxa of Lepidoptera

-Documentation & Inventorization of Microlepidoptera species

Publications

Books: 05, Research papers: 128 (published)

• Chandra, K., Pathania, P.C., Rajmohana, K. and Hundal, S.S. 2021. Faunal diversity of Agroecosystem in India, 1-767.
• Pathania, P.C., Das, A., Brown, J.W. and Chandra, K. 2020.  Catalogue of family Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea)fromIndia.Zootaxa,4757(1):001-095(monograph)
• Editor-Director. 2021. Fauna of Himachal Pradesh, State Fauna Series, 26 (Part-1), 1-664+63 colour plates.
• Editor-Director. 2021. Fauna of Himachal Pradesh, State Fauna Series, 26 (Part-2), 1-536+19 colour plates (Published by Director, Zool. Surv. of India, Kolkata).
• Zia-ul-Hassan and Pathania, P.C. 2008. CSIR- UGC NET Life Sciences for paper I and Paper II. 1-422pp. Satya Prakashan Publication, New Delhi.

128 research papers published in SCI/NAAS/UGC journals

-102 abstracts published, 83 conferences etcattended

Five important publications:

• Das, A., Pathania, P.C. and Singh, N. 2022. A catalogue of Indian Lecithoceridae (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea). Zootaxa, 5165 (1): 056-078.
• Pathania, P.C., Sushank, P.R. and Park, K.T. 2021. Two new species records of Lecithoceridae (Gelechioidea: Lepidoptera) from India. Zootaxa, 4920 (4): 595–599
• Pathania, P.C., Das, A., Brown, J.W. and Chandra, K. 2020.Catalogue of family Tortricidae Latreille, 1802 (Lepidoptera: Tortricoidea) from India.Zootaxa, 4757(1):001-095 (Monograph).
• Pathania, P.C., Gielis, C., Das, A., and Chandra, K. 2020.  Catalogue of superfamily PterophoroideaKuznetsov&Stekolnikov, 1979 (Lepidoptera) of India, Zootaxa, 4915 (2): 201-236.
• Park, K.T., Liu, S., Heppner,J.B., Pathania, P.C. and Wang, S.2015.  Review of the genus Trichoboscis Meyrick, with descriptions of four new species (Lepidoptera, Lecithoceridae). Zootaxa, 3986 (2): 227-237.

ResearchGate profile

[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prakash_Pathania]

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