Vikas Kumar

Vikas Kumar, Indian entomologist and botanist.

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Kumar, V., Tyagi, K., Ghosh, B. & Singha, D. 2014. A new species of Taeniothrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India. Zootaxa 3884(2): 197–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.9 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Ghosh, B. & Kumar, V. 2014. The genus Ctenothrips from India (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with description of one new species and one new record. Zootaxa 3821(2): 273–279. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.7 Reference page.

Tyagi, K. & Kumar, V. 2015. The Thrips formosanus group from Asia and Australia with a new species of the genus Thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) from India. Zootaxa 3947(2): 296–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.12 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
Tyagi, K. & Kumar, V. 2015. Thrips arorai Bhatti (Thysanoptera, Thripidae): first description of the male. Zootaxa 3904(1): 144–146. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.9 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Kumar, V. & Chauhan, N. 2015. A new species of the genus Tameothrips Bhatti (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) with four new records of thrips from India. Zootaxa 4007(2): 283–289. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4007.2.11 Preview (PDF). Reference page.

Tyagi, K. & Kumar, V. 2016. A new record of Holarctic genus Odontothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India with a new species. Zootaxa 4067(4): 484–488. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.4.8 Reference page.
Tyagi, K. & Kumar, V. 2016. The Sericothripinae genus Neohydatothrips (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) in India with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4132(3): 438–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4132.3.12 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Kumar, V., Bhuyan, M., Shandilya, S. & Chanda, S.K. 2016. Chaetanaphothrips kiyosumianus (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) new to India with first record of the male. Zootaxa 4147(5): 593–596. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.5.8 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Mound, L.A. & Kumar, V. 2016. A new species of Chirothripoides (Thysanoptera: Tubulifera) from India and Malaysia. Zootaxa 4200(2): 331–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.2.8. . Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Singha, D. & Kumar, V. 2017. Danothrips litseae sp.n. (Thysanoptera, Thripidae) from India on leaves of Litsea. Zootaxa 4269(1): 137–140. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4269.1.8. Reference page.

Caleb, J.T.D., Chatterjee, S., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. 2017b. Two new jumping spiders of the genera Epocilla Thorell, 1887 and Mogrus Simon, 1882 from India (Araneae: Salticidae) Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 329–334. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Chakraborty, R., Singha, D. & Kumar, V. 2017. A new species of Trichromothrips (Thysanoptera) from India with four new records. Zootaxa 4363(1): 145–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.1.8 Reference page.

Caleb, J.T.D., Chatterjee, S., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. 2018. A new generic record and two new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 7–12. full article (PDF). Reference page.
Caleb, J.T.D., Sajan, S.K. & Kumar, V. 2018. New jumping spiders from the alpine meadows of the Valley of Flowers, western Himalayas, India (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 783: 113-124. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.783.25225 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Singha, D., Saha, G.K. & Kumar, V. 2018. One generic synonym and one new species of Phlaeothripidae from India (Thysanoptera). ZooKeys 786: 59–68. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.786.28332 Reference page.

Caleb, J.T.D., Bera, C., Acharya, S. & Kumar, V., 2019. Jumping spiders of the genus Pancorius Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini) from eastern India, with a description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 261–266 DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.28.2.09. . Reference page.
Caleb, J.T.D., Ghosh, D. & Kumar, V. 2018. On two new synonyms of the orb-weaving spider Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4444(3): 342–346. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.9 Reference page.
Chandra, K., Singh, N., Kumar, V., Ranjan, R., Caleb, J.T.D., Gayen, S., Das, M. & Dey, R. 2019. The genus Mustilizans Yang, 1995 (Lepidoptera: Endromidae) in India with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4624(2): 183–190. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.2 Reference page.
Prasad, P., Tyagi, K., Caleb, T.D.J. & Kumar, V. 2019. A new species of the cob web spider genus Theridion from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 26: 108-117. Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Tyagi, K., Singha, D., Chakraborty, R., Pakrashi, A. & Kumar, V. 2020. A new species of Apelaunothrips (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) from India with new synonym of Podothrips sasacola Kurosawa. Zootaxa 4751(1): 196–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.4 Reference page.
Tyagi, K., Singha, D., Pakrashi, A., Das, M. & Kumar, V. 2020. Tryphactothrips rutherfordi (Bagnall) (Thysanoptera, Panchaetothripinae): first description of the male. Zootaxa 4728(3): 295–297. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.3.10 Reference page.

Bandyopadhyay, U., Dey, R., Bhattacharyya, K., Mallick, K., Mazumder, A., Gayen, S., Das, M., Raha, A., Kumar Sanyal, A., Kumar, V., Prasad Uniyal, V. & Chandra, K. 2021. Taxonomy and ecology of genus Phlogophora Treitschke, 1825 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) in Indian Himalaya with description of a new species. Zootaxa 5004(2): 311–342. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5004.2.4. . Reference page.