Ankita Gupta
Scientist
Division of Insect Systematics
ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources
India
Biography
Developed open access Web portal- "Indian fauna of Pteromalidae" and “Indian genera of Chalcididae” for identification of Indian species of Pteromalidae & Chalcididae with details on diagnosis, associated hosts and distribution. Nearly 1000 species of parasitic hymenoptera collected, identified and added to the reference collections of NBAII, Bangalore. All the identified species databased in IARIDB- Database under Network Project on Insect Biosystematics More than 500 new distribution and host records of various parasitic wasps along with 42 new species described and documented from different regions of India.
Research Interest
Parasitic Hymenoptera (Chalcidoidea & Ichneumonoidea)- Biodiversity, systematics, host-parasitic wasps association/interactions & molecular characterization
Publications
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Ankita Gupta, S. M. Gawas & R. Bhambure 2015. On the parasitoid complex of butterflies with descriptions of two new species of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) from Goa, India Systematic Parasitology 92: 223–240.
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Ankita Gupta, Mark Shaw, Sophie Cardinal and Jose Fernandez-Triana (2016) A review of unusual species of Cotesia (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) with the first tergite narrowing at midlength. ZooKeys 580: 29–44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.580.8090
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Ankita Gupta, Venkatesan T., More R. P. (2016) Morphological and molecular characterization of reared parasitoid wasps of the genus Glyptapanteles Ashmead 1904 (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Microgastrinae) associated with Lepidoptera in India. PLoS ONE 11 (3): e0150765.
