ZSI Scientist Profile

Highest Academic degree

Ph.D.; 2013

Department/Division

Lepidoptera Section, Zoological Survey of India, Kolkata

Email Address

joshiarctidae@gmail.com

joshiarctiidae@gmail.com

Phone Number

+91 9569325383

Area of Expertise

Taxonomy: Lepidoptera (Moths)

Experience after Ph. D.

11 years

Significant Achievements

Taxonomy of Moths

Discovered four new genera, and about 50 new species/ subspecies of moths. Also, enriched Indian moth fauna with new country records of seven genera and about 45 species. Besides this, many other taxonomic changes provided for stability of different indian taxa.

• Catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea: 1,695 species (Zootaxa: 1-423 pp)
• Catalogue of Indian Arctiinae:  673 species (Zootaxa: 1-118 pp)
• Catalogue of Nolidae from India: 354 species (Zootaxa: 1-112 pp)
• An annotated catalogue of Indian Lasiocampidae: 100 species (Zootaxa: 1-37pp)
• Checklist of Superfamily Drepanoidea: 164 species (Records ZSI: 1-24 pp)
• Catalogue of Indian Cossoidea: 165 species (Zootaxa: 301–348)

Online catalogue:

Singh, N., Joshi, R. & Banerjee, D. (2022) Catalogue of Indian Lepidoptera. Zoological Survey of India. (https://www.indianlepidoptera.in).

This is the first of its kind digital platform regarding Cataloguing of Indian Lepidoptera. This for Lepidoptera catalogue is available free of cost to anyone interested in Lepidoptera. 

Mentorship

Guiding MSc dissertations/ Ph.d. scholars about moth Taxonomy

Research Focus

Taxonomy of Indian Moths (Lepidoptera) with special emphasis on Noctuoidea. 

Publications

• Joshi, R., Singh, N. & Kuni, N. (2021)A catalogue of Nolidae Bruand, 1846 from India (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea). Zootaxa, 5034 (1), 112 pp. Published by Mangolia Press, Auckland, New Zealand. (ISBN 978-1-77688-358-5)
• Singh, N., Ranjan, R., Talukdar, A., Joshi, R., Kirti, J. S., Chandra, K. & Mally R. (2022) A catalogue of Indian Pyraloidea (Lepidoptera). Zootaxa, 5197 (1): 001–423.
• Joshi R., Singh, N. &Kuni, N. (2020) Introduction of a new generic synonymy and three newly recorded species of Nolinae (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) from India. Zootaxa, 4890 (1): 129-134.
• Singh, S. Kirti, J.S., Joshi, R& Singh, N. (2023) Taxonomic review of the Miltochrista hollowai and M. curvifascia species-groups with descriptions of two new species from India (Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). Zootaxa 5315 (2): 150–160.
• Joshi, R., Singh, N., Laszlo, G.M. & Kuni, N (2020) First record of the genus Porcellanola László, Ronkay & Witt, 2006 (Lepidoptera, Nolidae, Nolinae) from India with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4810 (1): 110–116

ResearchGate profile

www.researchgate.net/profile/RahulJoshi

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