Rishikesh Tripathi 


Rishikesh joined the CATE lab in 2020 after completing Masters in Biodiversity from AGC, Pune. He focuses on the diversity ecology of spiders from Desert national park, Rajasthan.

 Achievements

   UGC NET- JRF, June 2019

Mumbai University Ph. D Entrance Test

Secured 1st Rank in Bachelor degree (Mumbai University)

Secured 3rd place at the Indian Association of Physics Teachers (IAPT) Examination

Publications


Tripathi, R. (2018). Predation record on Duttaphrynus species by Indian Bullfrog Hoplobatrachus tigerinus (Daudin, 1802). frog leg#134, In: Zoo’s Print 33(4): 10:11.


Dutta, S., Narawade, S., CM., Gadhavi, D., Uddin, M., Mhaskar, M., Pandey, D., Mohan, A., Sharma, H., Iyer, S., Tripathi, R., Verma, V., Jangid, A., Charkdar, B., Karulkar, A., Lambture, B., Khongsai, N., Kumar, S., Gore, K., Jhala, D., Vaidya, N., Horne, B., Chittora, A., Annigeri, B.S., Trivedi, M., and Jhala, Y.V. (2018) Status of the Lesser Florican Stypheotides indicus and implications for its conservation. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun


Sutirtha Dutta, Tushna Karkaria, Bipin C.M., Mohib Uddin, Devendradutta Pandey, Arjun Awasthi, Sourav Supakar, Tanya Gupta, Hrishika Sharma, Hemlata Joshi, Vishal Varma, Anjali Nagar, Indranil Paul, Chittaranjan Dave, Priyamvad Bagaria, Srinivas Y., Vineet Singh, Pravesh Saklani, Monisha Mohandas, Varun Kher, Rishikesh Tripathi, Ashish Jangid, A. Mohan, Shravan Singh Rathore, Arindam Tomar, Gobind S. Bhardwaj, Raghuvir S. Shekhawat , Priya Ranjan, Anoop K. R., Kapil Chandrawal, Vijay Borana, Frederic Lacroix, John M. Seabury, Elyousfi Elhoussaine, Thibault Dieuleveut, M. A. Osman, Mr. Dipesh Dhakal, Chloe Boullenger, Lesobre Loic, Juan Carlos Alonso, Keith Scotland, Devesh Gadhvi, Kedar Gore, Asad Rahmani, Deepak Apte, Manmohan S. Negi, Vinod B. Mathur1, S. S. Garbyal , S. K. Khanduri , M. K. Ranjitsinh and Yadvendradev Jhala (2020) The Great Indian Bustard in the peril and hope. Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun


Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Siliwal, M., & Dutta, S. (2020). The first report of matriphagy in Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock 1900. Acta Arachnologica, 69(1): 17-21.


Tripathi, R., Varma, V., & Genwa, S. L. (2020) Baillon’s Crake (Zapornia pusilla) from Thar Desert, Rajasthan. Newsletter for Birdwatchers 60 (5): 62.


Tripathi, R., Jangid, A.K., Siliwal, M., Dutta, S. and Sudhikumar, A.V. (2021). First record of Menemerus marginatus (Kroneberg, 1875) (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India. Peckhamia 231.1:1-7. 


Tripathi, R., Pai, J., (2021). In the web of life, every predator gets preyed!. Aapala Paryavaran 28.17: 13-15.


Kadam, G., Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Hill, D. E. (2021). First records of the jumping spider genus Irura Peckham & Peckham 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Simaethina) from India. Peckhamia 243.1: 1-9.


Tripathi, R., Henrard, A., Jangid, A. K., Dutta, S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). First documentation of Plexippus minor Wesołowska & van Harten, 2010 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arachnology 19(1): 66-71. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.1.66 


Logunov, D. V., Tripathi, R. & Jangid, A. K. (2022). First record of Pseudomogrus Simon, 1937 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, with description of a new species. Arachnology 19(1): 72-76. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.1.72 


Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Tripathi, R., Sampathkumar, M., Dharmara, J. & Packiam, S. M. (2022a). Taxonomic notes on some South and Southeast Asian members of the genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Aranei, Salticidae, Dendryphantini). Zootaxa 5125(4): 389-407. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.3 


Kadam, G., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Tripathi, R. (2022).  New records of the jumping spider Dexippus pengi Wang & Li, 2020 (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina) in India.  Peckhamia 266.1: 1-4.


Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Prajapati, D. A., Siliwal, M. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). Description of two new species of the genus Afraflacilla Berland et Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 31(3): 326-334. doi:10.15298/arthsel.31.3.09


Sankaran, P. M., Kadam, G., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Tripathi, R. (2022). First record of Siamspinops Dankittipakul & Corronca, 2009 from India, first description of the female of Makdiops shevaroyensis (Gravely, 1931), and a catalogue of Indian selenopid fauna (Araneae, Selenopidae). Zootaxa 5194(1): 109-121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5194.1.6 


Jäger, P., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Tripathi, R. (2022). Three species of Sparassidae from India, with the first description of the males of Olios kiranae Sethi & Tikader, 1988 and Thelcticopis moolampilliensis Sunil Jose & Sebastian, 2007 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Arachnology 19(3): 621-627. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.621 


Tripathi, R., A. Jose, K. S. Nafin, N. Babu and A. V. Sudhikumar. (2023).  The first description of the female of Myrmarachne uniseriata Narayan, 1915 and the first report of Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) from India. Peckhamia 289(1): 1-10.


Suryanarayanan, T. B., Ábrahám, L., Bijoy., C &  Tripathi, R. (2023). Revision on the genus Bubopsis MacLachlan, 1898 known in India (Neuroptera: Myrmeleontidae: Ascalaphinae). Natura Somogyiensis 40:31-46. doi.org/10.24394/NatSom.2023.40.31 


Kadam, G., Tripathi, R.  and A. V. Sudhikumar. (2023). Three new jumping spiders from northeastern India (Araneae: Salticidae: Hasariini: Habrocestum). Peckhamia 295.1:1-10. 


Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Sudhikumar, A. V., Siliwal, M. & Dutta, S. (2023). Steatoda albomaculata (De Geer, 1778) (Araneae: Theridiidae): an addition to the spider fauna of India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 119(3, 2022): 266-272. [publ. in April 2023] doi:10.17087/jbnhs/2022/v119/160688 


Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Bhagirathan, U. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023c). First record of the genus Bassaniodes Pocock, 1903 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from India. Natura Somogyiensis 40: 47-50. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2023.40.47 


Tripathi, R., Jangid, A. K., Bhagirathan, U. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). First record of the cobweb spider (Steatoda erigoniformis) from India. Taprobanica 12(1): 26-27, pl. 15-17. doi:10.47605/tapro.v12i1.299 


Jose, A., Tripathi, R. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). First records of the genera Anarrhotus Simon, 1902 and Gelotia Thorell, 1890 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 299.1: 1-7.


Tripathi, R., Joshi, P., Kasambe, R. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). A new species of Hasarius Simon, 1871 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Mumbai, India. Arthropoda Selecta 32(2): 213-219. doi:10.15298/arthsel.32.2.06 

 

Tripathi, R., Sankaran, P. M., Kuni, N. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). New species of Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 from India (Araneae: Palpimanidae, Palpimaninae), with a catalogue of the Indian palpimanid fauna. European Journal of Taxonomy 891: 26-50. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.891.2265 


Tripathi, R., Kadam, G., Asha, T. J. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). First record of Sparbambus Zhang, Woon & Li, 2006 from India, with description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 5352(3): 447-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5352.3.10 


Babu, N., Tripathi, R., Sampathkumar, M., Caleb, J. T. D., Prasad, G., Mohanasundaram, M., Mahendiran, G. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). Two new species of Afraflacilla Berland et Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 32(4): 459-465. doi:10.15298/arthsel.32.4.10


Tripathi, R., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sherwood, D. (2023). A new species of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 from the Thar Desert, India (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Zootaxa 5389(4): 483-490. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.6 


Sankaran, P. M. & Tripathi, R. (2023). First record of the genus Hongkongia Song & Zhu, 1998 from India, with the description of a new species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 5389(4): 497-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.8 


Kadam, G., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Tripathi, R. (2024). A new Indopadilla Caleb & Sankaran, 2019 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. Arachnology 19(7): 1025-1028. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1025 


Gawas, V. U., Tripathi, R., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sawant, N. S. (2024). A new species of Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae, Salticidae) from India. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 10(1): 125-132. doi:10.61186/jibs.10.1.125 


Tripathi, R., Kuni, N., Kadam, G., Kumaran, K. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2024). Four new species and five new distribution records of the jumping spider genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Salticidae: Aelurillines) from India. European Journal of Taxonomy 930: 124-156. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.930.2485 


Sankaran, P. M., Kadam, G. & Tripathi, R. (2024). First records of Medmassa Simon, 1887 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 5433(1): 133-143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5433.1.6 


Marathe, K., Tripathi, R., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Maddison, W. P. (2024). Phylogenomic placement and revision of Iranattus Prószyński, 1992 jumping spiders (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina). Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 531-542. doi:10.3897/zse.100.122034 


Sankaran, P. M., Tripathi, R. & Kadam, G. (2024). A new species of Steriphopus Simon, 1887 from India (Araneae: Palpimanidae, Chediminae), with the proposal of a new combination. Zootaxa 5474(1): 97-100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5474.1.10 


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