Vilayanoor V. Ramamurthy
Vilayanoor V. Ramamurthy, Indian coleopterist specialising in weevils at the National Pusa Collection at the Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. He has published more than 100 research articles, of which there are few monographs on the short snout weevils like Myllocerus, Tanymecus, Lepropus, and Dereodus. He has 40 new species of weevils to his credit. He will be willing to identify the weevils.
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Publications
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2015
- Kumar, R., Mittal, V., Chutia, P. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2015. Taxonomy of Fulgoraecia melanoleuca (Fletcher, 1939), (Lepidoptera: Epipyropidae) in India, a biological control agent of Pyrilla perpusilla (Walker) (Hemiptera: Lophopidae). Zootaxa 3974(3): 431–439. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3974.3.10 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
- Parveen, S., Ahmad, A., Brozek, J. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2015. Morphological diversity of the labial sensilla of phytophagous and predatory Pentatomidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with reference to their possible functions. Zootaxa 4039(2): 359–372. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.2.9. Preview (PDF). Reference page.
- Parveen, S., Choudhary, J.S., Thomas, A. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2015. Biology, morphology and DNA barcodes of Tessaratoma javanica (Thunberg) (Hemiptera: Tessaratomidae). Zootaxa 3936(2): 261–271. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3936.2.6. Reference page.
- Shashank, P.R., Saravanan, L., Kalidas, P., Phanikumar, T., Ramamurthy, V.V. & Bose, N.S.C. 2015. A new species of the genus Acria Stephens, 1834 (Lepidoptera: Depressariidae: Acriinae) from India. Zootaxa 3957(2): 226–230. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.2.6 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
- Singh, S.K., David, K.J., Kumar, D. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2015. A new species of Magnimyiolia Shiraki (Diptera: Tephritidae: Trypetinae) and new records of Acanthonevrini from India. Zootaxa 3949(1): 129–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3949.1.7 Preview (PDF). Reference page.
2016
- Devi, S.R., Ray, D.C. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2016. Descriptions of three new species of Strattis Pascoe, 1883 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Cryptorhynchinae) from the Indian subcontinent. Zootaxa 4085(2): 199–218. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.2Reference page.
- Kojima, H., Ayri, S. & Ramamurthy, V.V. 2016. Eusynnada, a resurrected genus of Ochyromerina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae: Tychiini), with description of a second species from India and Thailand. Zootaxa 4066(4): 469–476. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.4.7 Full article (PDF). Reference page.