Krushnamegh Kunte

Krushnamegh Kunte, Indian entomologist.

National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, GKVK, Bellary Road, Bengaluru (=Bangalore) 560065, India
Indian Foundation for Butterflies, Bengaluru 560097, India.
E-mail: [email protected]

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

, 2015. A new species of Hypolycaena (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) from Arunachal Pradesh, north-eastern India. The Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera. 48: 21–27. full article (pdf). Reference page.
Toussaint, E.F.A., Morinière, J., Müller, C.J., , Turlin, B., Hausmann, A. & Balke, M. 2015. Comparative molecular species delimitation in the charismatic Nawab butterflies (Nymphalidae, Charaxinae, Polyura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 194–209. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.015. Reference page.

Mirza, Z.A., Sanap, R.V. & 2016. A new species of the genus Thaicharmus Kovařík, 1995 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from northeast India. Euscorpius 215: 1-11. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Price, B.W., Allan, E.L., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Simon, C. & 2016. The cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka: an annotated provisional catalogue, regional checklist and bibliography. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8051. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8051. Reference page.

Joshi, S. & 2017. Two new dragonfly species (Odonata: Anisoptera: Aeshnidae) from north-eastern India. Zootaxa 4300(2): 259–268. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.7. Reference page.
Mirza, Z.A., Sanap, R.V. & 2017. A new genus and new species of diplurid spider (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) from northeast India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 10(1): 32-38. DOI: 10.1016/j.japb.2016.03.013. . Reference page.
Datta-Roy, A., Deepak, V., Chaitanya, R., Murthy, C., Bhosale, H., Lajmi, A., Karanth, P., & Giri, V. 2017. On the taxonomic status of Eurylepis poonaensis (Squamata: Scincidae): resolving a long-standing conundrum. Salamandra 53(3): 389–397. PDF Reference page.
Marathe, K., Yeshwanth, H.M., Basu, D.N. & 2017. A new species of Platypleura Amyot & Audinet-Serville, 1843 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) from the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 4311(4): 523–536. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.4.5. Reference page.
Sondhi, Y., Kitching, I.J., Basu, D.N. & 2017. A new species of Theretra Hübner (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4323(2): 185–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.2. Reference page.

Marathe, K., Sanborn, A.F. & 2018. Revision of the genus Rustia Stål, 1866 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae) including a generic synonymy, four new combinations, and two new species from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4457(3): 431–443. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.5 Reference page.
Marshall, D.C., Moulds, M., Hill, K.B.R., Price, B.W., Wade, E.J., Owen, C.L., Goemans, G., Marathe, K., Sarkar, V., Cooley, J.R., Sanborn, A.F., , Villet, M.H. & Simon, C. 2018. A molecular phylogeny of the cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) with a review of tribe and subfamily classification. Zootaxa 4424(1): 1–64. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4424.1.1. PDF Reference page.

Basu, D.N., Churi, P., Soman, A., Sengupta, A., Bhakare, M., Lokhande, S., Bhoite, S., Huertas, B. & 2019. The genus Tarucus Moore, [1881] (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) in the Indian Subcontinent. Tropical Lepidoptera Research 29(2): 87-110. Online. Reference page.
Huang, Z.F., Chiba, H., Jin, J., Kizhakke, A.G., Wang, M., & Fan, X.L. 2019. A multilocus phylogenetic framework of the tribe Aeromachini (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Hesperiinae), with implications for taxonomy and biogeography. Systematic Entomology 44: 163–178. DOI: 10.1111/syen.12322 . Reference page.

Joshi, S., Subramanian, K.A., Babu, R., Sawant, D. & 2020. Three new species of Protosticta Selys, 1885 (Odonata: Zygoptera: Platystictidae) from the Western Ghats, India, with taxonomic notes on P. mortoni Fraser, 1922 and rediscovery of P. rufostigma Kimmins, 1958. Zootaxa 4858(2): 151–185. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.2.1 Reference page.
Maddison, W.P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P.Y.C., Kaneshaatnam, N., Benjamin, S.P. & 2020. A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys, 1004: 27–97. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526 Reference page.
Sondhi, S., Basu, D.N., Sondhi, Y. & 2020. A new species of Metallolophia Warren, 1895 (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Geometrinae), and notes on M. opalina (Warren, 1893), from eastern Himalaya, India. Zootaxa 4838(2): 289–297. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4838.2.9. . Reference page.

Grehan, J.R., Mielke, C.G.C., Basu, D.N., Singh Negi, C., Kumar Sharme, P. & 2021. New species of Thitarodes Viette, 1968 ghost moth from Kumaun Himalaya, India (Lepidoptera: Hepialidae). ZooNova 12: 1-16. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Sarkar, V., Mahapatra, C., Mahapatra, P.P., Nair, M.V. & 2021. Description of three new species of the genus Mata Distant, 1906 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadinae: Oncotympanini) with notes on their natural history from Indian state of Meghalaya, India. Zootaxa 4908(1): 1–28. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.1.1 Reference page.

Sondhi, S., Efetov, K.A., Tarmann, G.M., Karmakar, T., Pawar, U. & 2023. A new species of Piarosoma Hampson, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Zygaenidae, Procridinae, Artonini) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zootaxa 5270(1): 139–145. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.1.9. . Reference page.

, Sengupta, A., Pawar, U. & Nawge, V. 2024. A new species of silverline butterfly, Cigaritis Donzel, 1847 (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot, India. Zootaxa 5399(1): 085–095. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5399.1.7. . Reference page.
Marathe, K., Caleb, J.T.D., Maddison, W.P., Nisha, B.G., Maliye, C.C., Lohit, Y.T. & 2024. Tenkana, a new genus of jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippina) from South Asia, with the new Indian species Tenkana jayamangali. ZooKeys 1215: 91–106. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.133522 Reference page.
Marathe, K., Maddison, W.P. & 2024. Ghatippus paschima, a new species and genus of plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina). ZooKeys 1191: 89–103. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1191.114117 Reference page.