Dear Shri Das I would like to inform you that I have worked on butterflies of Thar Desert and the reference of published paper is given here. Presently I am working on butterflies of Delhi, which got published in a booklet entitled Glimpses of Nature. In addition to it I am directly involved in creating the Butterfly Park in Yamuna Biodiversity Park, Delhi.
Kazmi S. I, G. S. Arora, A. K. Bhattacharyya and M. Faisal (2003) On a collection of Butterflies (Lepidoptera) at the Desert Regional Station, Zoological Survey of India, Jodhpur. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 101 (Part 1 – 2): 161 – 177. Glimpses of Nature, 3 Motilal Nehru Place, Lutyens Delhi by S. K. Basak, A. Love, F. A. Khudsar, M. Faisal, S.Babu, B.C. Sabata. Second Edition 2008, 38 pp. Published by Department of Environment, Government of NCT of Delhi, India. Thanking you, with regards Mohammad Faisal Scientist-B Centre for Environmental Management of Degraded Ecosystems (CEMDE) School of Environmental Studies University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 Email: [email protected] Phone: ++91 (11)27616569 (Office), ++91-9311209821 (Cellular) Fax: ++91 (11)27666237, 27616569 --- On Thu, 23/9/10, Kishen Das <[email protected]> wrote: From: Kishen Das <[email protected]> Subject: [ButterflyIndia] People working on Butterflies of India in recent times To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 23 September, 2010, 14:43 Dear All, I was trying to list down the names of people who have contributed significantly after 1990 towards our knowledge of Butterflies of India. Please help me in completing this list. If you identify such a person, please let me know their name, along with their specialization. Thanks a lot. Since I have limited access/knowledge about people working on butterflies of India, my sincere apologies to people whose name is missing from this list. Please feel free to highlight your work. The idea is to help the budding lepidopterists of India to contact relevant people, if they have interest in specific field and also at specific locations. Regards, Kishen Das -------------------------------------------------------------- Arif Siddique ( Extensive Butterfly Photography in North East ) Balakrishnan Valappil ( Life Cycles of Western Ghats Butterflies ) Dr. K.Chandrashekar ( Work on Bannerghatta Butterfly Park ) C. Susanth ( Extensive Butterfly Watching and Photography in Kerala) Dr. George Mathew ( Extensive field work on Butterflies of Kerala) Dr. Jaffer Palot ( Field work and Book on Butterflies of Kerala ) Dr. Harish Gaonkar ( Butterfly Bibliography and Field Work on South Indian Butterfly Diversity) Isaac Kehimkar ( Butterfly books , Butterfly Tours and Photography ) Dr. Kalesh ( Life cycles of Western Ghats, Hesperiidae) Karthikeyan S. ( Field Work and Butterfly Photography in India ) Kishen Das ( Butterfly Migration in South India and Field Work on Butterflies of Karnataka ) Dr. Krushnamegh Kunte ( Extensive Work on Indian Butterfly Diversity and Mimicry ) Meena Haribal ( Butterfly Book) Monsoon Jyoti Gogoi ( Extensive Butterfly Photography in North East ) Peter Smetacek( Extensive work on Moths and Butterflies of Himalayas) Dr. Saji Kandoth ( Life Cycles of Western Ghats Butterflies ) Sanjay Sondhi ( Butterfly Photography and Butterfly Tours) Dr. Soubadra Devi ( Field Work on Butterflies of Western Ghats and Andaman Islands) Dr. Varshney, R.K.( Butterfly Book, Work on Butterfly Names and Statistics) Ullasa Kodandaramaiah ( Biogeography and evolution of Nymphalidae) Unni Krishnan Pulikkal ( Life cycle and Extensive Photography of Western Ghats Butterflies) Vijay Barve ( Moderator, ButterflyIndia e-group ) Yuwaraj Gurjar ( Extensive Macro Photography of Indian Butterflies ) -- Enjoy

