Diversity and Ecology of spiders in Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary


Sudhin P.P.


Sudhin, one of the pioneer research scholar in CATE started his research career as a DST-SERB project fellow in the year 2014. Next year he started working on his doctoral research concentrating in the diversity and ecology of spiders in Wayanad wildlife sanctuary. He also contributed many novel species to science during his research.

Achievements

  • Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship during the financial year 2017-2018.

  • International Travel Grant from Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India for attending the 31st European Congress of Arachnology (ECA), held in Vác, Hungary.

  • Member, International society of Arachnology

  • Member, American Arachnological Society

PUBLICATIONS

• Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Jangid, A. K., Tripathi, R., Siliwal, M., Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). First report of the jumping spider genus Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India with description of two new species. Accepted in Zootaxa.

• Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). A new foliage-dwelling castianeirine spider (Echinax muthangaensis sp. nov.) from the Southern Western Ghats of India. Communicated in Arthropoda Selecta.

• Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). Redescription of Asemonea cristata Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Asemoneinae), with notes on its synonymy and distribution. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 251-256.

• Nafin, K. S., Sumesh, N. V., Sudhin, P. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019). Redescription and new records of Phoroncidia septemaculeata O. Pickard-Cambridge 1873 from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4691(2): 188-194.

• Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Benjamin, S. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019). Two new species of the genus Marengo Peckham et Peckham, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 435-444.

• Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Sumesh, N. V. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019). A new spider species of the genus Cocalus C.L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 125-130.

• Caleb T.D., Sanap R.V., Patel K.G., Sudhin P.P., Nafin K.S & Sudhikumar A.V. (2018). First description of the female of Chrysilla volupe Karsch (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India, with notes on the species distribution and life history., Arthropoda Selecta, 27(2): 143–153.

• Jose A.C., Sudhin P.P., Prasad P.M. & Sreejith K.A. (2018). Spider diversity in Kavvayi river basin, Kerala, Southern India., Curr World Environ 2018;13(1).

• Sudhin P.P., Nafin K.S. & Sudhikumar A.V. (2017). Revision of Hindumanes Logunov, 2004 (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae), with description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India., Zootaxa, 4350 (2), 317–330.

• Sudhin P.P., Nafin K.S., Simmons Z & Sudhikumar A.V. (2016). On the type species of the genus Aetius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: The first description of male with notes on cymbial notch and mating plug (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae), Zootaxa, 4154 (4), 489-500.