Name: Prof. Basant Kumar Agarwala
Date of Birth: 01.01.1954
Ph. No.: +91 237 9083/9123
Mob. 09436169733
E-mail: bagarwala00@gmail.com
Fax: 0381-2374802
Academic Qualifications:
B.Sc. (Hons.)/1972/Calcutta University/First Rank
M.Sc./ Zoology/ 1974/ Calcutta University/Third Rank
Ph.D./ Zoology/ 1980/ Calcutta University
Employment: Tripura University (A Central University) since 2nd November 1981 (about 32 years)
Present Designation: Professor (Stage 6)
Topics of Teaching: Functional Anatomy of Non-Chordates, Ecology, Biosystematics and Biodiversity
Membership/Positions in Learned Academic Bodies/Organizations:

Fellow of Zoological Society, Calcutta

Fellow of the Aphidological Society, India

Fellow of the Indian Society for Biological Control, Bangalore

Fellow of West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology
Research Projects:
Supervised 15 Major Research Project sponsored by DST, UGC, ICAR, MOE &F, CSIR and JICA as
Principal Investigator.
Research Supervision:
 Fifteen students awarded Ph.D. in Zoology/Life Science
 Five students registered for Ph.D. in Zoology
Scholarship/Award/Recognitions:
 1972 : Jubilee Postgraduate (Merit) Award of Calcutta University.
 1972-1974 : National Scholarship (Merit), Govt. of India.
 1984 : Visitor’s Award of the British Council (UK).
 1889-1990 : Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship (UK).
 1997-1998 : INSA-Royal Society Fellowship Award (UK).
 2000 : Invitation Fellowship of Japanese Society for Promotion of Science
 2004 : INSA-Royal Society Fellowship Award (UK).
Publication Summary
I. Publications in peer-review Journals as in July 2013
Number of
papers
Number of Journals
International
108
49
Total
Citations
No. of HiIndex
Citations
No. of 10index
citations
Total
Impact
Factor
1398
21
34
56.991
National
58
II. List of Journals and number of papers published in order of impact factor index
Sr.
No.
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02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
21
22
Name of the Journal
Proceedings Royal Society, Biological science
Functional Ecology
Journal of Chemical Ecology
Zoological J. of Linn. Society
Ecological Entomology
Environmental Entomology
Journal of Bioscience
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata
Journal of Applied Zoology
Journal of Ethology
Applied Entomology & Zoology
European J. Entomology (= Acta entomobohem )
Ethology, Ecology & Evolution
Journal of Insect Science
Current Science
Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology
International J. of Pest Management (= Tropical Pest
Management)
Coleopterist Bulletin
Entomological Science
Biological Agriculture & Horticulture
Oriental Insects
Indian J. Agric. Sci.
Vegetos
Total
01
01
01
01
03
01
03
03
01
01
03
02
01
04
05
02
Impact factor
(based on 2012
ranking)
5.683
4.850
2.760
2.586
2.215
1.678
1.648
1.535
1.466
1.183
1.140
2.228
1.000
0.947
0.935
0.875
01
0.733
01
02
01
01
01
01
41
0.726
0.673
0.312
0.176
0.170
0.039
Number of
papers
List of Publications of B.K. Agarwala (with co-authors) with Citation index and Citation Ranking
(Top five ranked papers are in red fonts)
Sr. No.
Year
01
1979
02
1980
03
1981
04
1981
05
1981
06
1982
07
1982
08
1982
09
1983
10
1984
11
1984
12
1984
13
1985
14
1985
15
1985
16
1986
17
1986
Paper Title
Some parasites and predators of aphids of
north east India and Bhutan
Parasites and predators of aphids in Manipur
and Sikkim
Note on some aphids affecting economically
important plants in Sikkim
A conspectus of aphidiid (Hymenoptera:
Aphidiidae) parasites of aphids (Homoptera:
aphididae) in India
Observations on population trends of rose
aphids and their hymenopteran parasites in
Kalimpong, West Bengal (India)
Studies on aphid parasites (Hymenoptera:
aphidiidae) from Himachal Pradesh
One new subgenus, three new species and one
new subspecies of aphids (Homoptera) from
Sikkim, North East India
Two species of Cinara Curtis from India
(Homoptera: Aphididae, Lachninae)
Parasites and predators of rose infesting aphids
(Homoptera: Aphididae) in India
Prey records of aphidophagous syrphid flies
from India (Diptera: Syrphidae)
A checklist of Aphidoidea of India
Studies on Ceratovacuna silvestrii Takahshi
(Homoptera: Aphididae) and its predator
Anisolemnia dilatata (Fab.)on Bambusa
arundinacea
Biogeographical Considerations of Indian
Aphididae( Homoptera)
Aphid association of agricultural crops in
Tripura, North east India
Developmental morphology of Cervaphis
schouteniae vd Goot (Homoptera: aphididae).
Polymorphic variations in Greenidoidea
ceyloniae v.d.Goot (Aphididae)
Population trends of Cervaphis schoteniae v.d.
Goot on Microcos paniculata and its relevance
Journal details
Entomon, 4: 163-166
Entomon, 5: 39-42
Indian Journal of
Agricultural Science, 51-692694
Akitu, 39: 1-16
Entomon, 6: 211-214
Akitu, 44: 1-8
Entomon, 7: 60-66
Akitu, 46: 1-5
Entomon, 8: 35-39
Acta Entomologia
Bohemoslovaca, 81: 15-21.
Records of Zoological Survey
of India, 50: 1Records of Zoological Survey
of India, 81: 23-42
Insecta Matusurana n.s., 31:
81-96.
Indian Agriculturist, 29: 281287.
Bulletin of Zoological Survey
of India, 7: 49-58
Records of Zoological Survey
of India, 83: 1165-173.
Indian Biologist, 18: 37-39.
to the paucity of aphid species in India
Natural food range and feeding habits of
aphidophagous insects in north east India
Seasonality and reproduction in Greenideoida
ceyloniae Goot (Homoptera: aphididae)
Biology and food relations of Micraspis discolor
(F.): an aphidophagous Coccinellid in India
Prey records of aphidophagous Coccinellidae in
India. A review and bibliography.
Relative development and voracity of six
species of aphidophagous syrphids in
cruciferous crops.
Description of sexual morphs of Tinocallis
kahawaluokalani (Kirkaldy) (Homoptera:
Aphididae) from India
Why do ladybirds cannibalise?
18
1987
19
1987
20
1988
21
1988
22
1989
23
1989
24
1991
25
1992
26
1992
27
1993
28
1993
29
1994
Niche specialization in a pine aphid Cinara
atrotibialis (Homoprera: Aphididae)
30
1994
31
1994
32
1994
33
1994
34
1995
35
1995
A taxonomic study of the genus
Anomalosiphum Takahashi (Insecta:
Aphidoidea)
Anholocycly in tropical aphids: population trend
and influence of temperature on development,
reproduction and survival of three species
(Homoptera: Aphidoidea)
Description of hitherto unknown morphs of
Cervaphis quercus Takahashi (Homoptera:
Aphididae) from north east India
Importance of immigrant alatae on the
population development of mustard aphid
Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach)
Adaptive features of predatory ladybird beetles
in uncertain and competitive habitats
Use of alternative foods in the rearing of
Biology, Ecology and Control
Efficiency of the aphid parasitoid
Trioxys indicus: a review and
bibliography
Laboratory study of cannibalism and
interspecific
predation in ladybirds in ladybirds
Kin recognition in ladybirds: Egg and larval
cannibalism.
Why do ladybirds lay eggs and in clusters?
Journal of Aphidology, 1: 1822.
Entomon, 12: 109-111.
Journal of Aphidology, 2: 717.
Tropical Pest Management,
34: 1-14
Proceedings of Indian
Academy of Science (Animal
Sci.), 98: 267-274
Entomon, 14: 273-274
Journal of Bioscience, 16:
103-109.
Biological Agriculture and
Horticulture, 8: 271-298
Ecological Entomology 17:
303-309
European Journal of
Entomology, 90: 45-90
Functional Ecology, 7: 541548.
Proceedings
Indian National Science
Academy, B59: 537-542.
Zoological Journal of
Linnean Society, 111 (4):
417-429.
Phytophaga, 6: 17-27
Entomon, 19: 171-173
Current Science, 66: 385-386
Current Science, 67: 587-591.
Entomon, 20: 19-23
36
1995
37
1997
38
1997
39
1998
40
1998
41
1998
42
1999
43
1999
44
2000
45
2000
46
2000
47
2000
48
2001
aphidophagous ladybeetle, Menochilus
sexmaculatus (Fab.)
Immigration, population development and
dispersal of Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach) in
relation to phenology and quality of mustard
crop
Oviposition behaviour and reproduction
efficiency in ladybird beetles (Coccinellidae:
Coleoptera): a case study of Menochilus
sexmaculatus (Fab.)
Cluster laying of eggs does not
increase the risk of cannibalism by first instar
larvae in ladybird beetles.
Who eats whose eggs? Intra versus interspecific
interactions in starving ladybird beetles
predaceous on aphids.
Numerical response of ladybird beetles
(Coleoptera: Cocinellidae) to aphid prey
(Homoptera: Aphididae) in a field bean in
north-east India.
Population diversity in aphids: the influence of
host plants in morphology, biology and
ecological performance of the mustard aphid
Lipaphis erysimi (Kaltenbach)
Ladybird induced life history changes in aphids.
Life history response of the mustard aphid
Lipaphis erysimi to phenological changes to its
host.
Effect of three species of predatory ladybirds
on oviposition of aphid parasitoids.
Effects of parasitized aphids
(Homoptera: Aphididae) as food on larval
performance of three predatory ladybirds
(Coeloptera: Coccinellidae).
Effects of indigenous ladybird species
(Coleptera: Coccinellidae) on the survival of an
exotic species in relation to prey
abundance
Competitive ability of ladybird predators of
aphids: a review of Cheilomenes maculata(
Fab.) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) with a
worldwide check list
Overlapping oviposition and chemical defence
of eggs in two co-occurring species of ladybird
predators of aphids.
Proceedings
Indian National Science
Academy, B61: 2265-274.
Journal of Aphidology, 11:
49-59.
Proceedings
Indian National Science
Academy, B63: 110-118.
Ethology
Ecology and Evolution, 10:
1-10.
Journal of Applied
Entomology , 123: 401-405.
Journal of Aphidology,
12: 21-31.
Proceedings of Royal Society
London, B266: 1549-1555.
Journal of Biosciences, 24:
101-109
Entomological Science , 3:
465-469.
Applied Entomology &
Zoology , 35: 467-472.
Applied Entomology &
Zoology , 35: 473-479.
Journal of Aphidology,
14: 1-20.
Journal of Ethology, 19: 4753.
49
2001
50
2001
51
2002
52
2003
53
2003
54
2004
55
2006
56
2007
57
2007
58
2007
59
2007
60
2007
61
2008
Prey consumption
and oviposition in aphidophagous predator
Menochilus sexmaculatus (Coleoptera:
Coccinellidae) in relation to prey density and
adult size.
Larval interactions in aphidophagous predators:
Effectiveness of wax cover as defence shields of
Scymnus larvae against predation from
syrphids.
Triangular fecundity in insects: ageing in
ladybirds.
Effects of conspecific and heterospecific
competitors on feeding and oviposition of a
predatory ladybird: a laboratory study.
Effect of conspecific and heterospecific faeces
on foraging and oviposition of two predatory
ladybirds; role of faecal cues in
predator avoidance.
Life table of Cervaphis quercus
Takahashi (Homoptera:
Aphididae) infesting oak, Quercus
serrata Thunberg (Fagaceae) in
Manipur.
Performance of Coccinella
septempunctata Linn. (Coleoptera:
Coccinellidae) larvae to varying prey density.
Phenotypic plasticity in aphids (Homoptera:
Aphididae): Components of variations and
causative factors.
Host plant-based morphological,
ecological and esterase
variations in Aphis gossypii
Gloverpopulations (Homoptera:
Aphididae).
Predation at low prey density:
larval development, adult size, age
at maturity and reproduction in
Coccinella transversalis (Fab.)
Polymorphism and phenotypic
plasticity in aphids.
Aphid-host plants interactions:
esterase pattern in Aphis gossypii
Glover (Homoptera: Aphididae)
clones from different host plants
Life history response of a predatory ladybird,
Harmonia axyridis (Pallas) (Coleoptera:
Coccinellidae), to food stress.
Environmental Entomology,
30: 1182-1187.
Entomologia Experimentalis
et Applicata, 100: 101-107.
Ecological Entomology, 27:
433-440.
Entomologia Experimentalis
et Applicata, 106: 219-226.
Journal of Chemical Ecology,
29: 357-376.
Indian Journal of
Entomology, 66: 256260.
Journal of Aphidology ,
22: 63-66.
Current Science, 93: 308-313.
Entomon , 32: 89-95.
Journal of Aphidology,
21: 77-84
Journal of Aphidology,
21: 1-10
Journal of Aphidology,
21: 11-16
Applied Entomology &
Zoology , 43: 183-89.
62
2009
63
2009
64
2009
65
2010
66
2010
67
2010
68
2010
69
2011
70
2011
71
2011
72
2011
Morphological, ecological and biological
variations in the mustard aphid Lipaphis
pseudobrassicae (Kaltenbach) from different
host plants.
Functional response
and reproductive attributes of the
aphidophagous ladybird beetle, Harmonia
dimidiate (Fabricius) in oak trees of sericulture
importance
Host plant based biological
variations in Aphis gossypii
Glover populations (Hemiptera:
Aphididae).
A comparison of ecological and biological
fitness characters of two congeneric species of
Pentolonia (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on banana
and taro host plants.
Predatory efficiency and
developmental attributes of
Harmonia d
imidiate (Fabricius)
(Coleopteran: Coccinellidae) in
relation to prey density.
Species richness and diversity of
butterflies in rural and urban
locations of north-east India.
Species diversity and incidence
Of winged aphids (Homoptera:
Aphididae) in water traps in
Tripura, north-east India.
Ecology of aphid-host plant interaction: Growth
and
reproductive rates of Aphis spiraecola Patch in
response to developmental changes in the
host plant Chromolaena odorata (L.) King &
Robinson
Journal of Asia-Pacific
Entomology, 12: 169-173.
Effects of resource gradient on
Age and size at maturity and
their influence on early-life
fecundity in the predatory Asian
ladybeetle Harmonia axyridis.
Fast-slow continuum in the life
history parameters of ladybirds
revisited.
Electrophoretic variation in esterase enzyme in
Aphis spiraecola (Patch) (Homoptera:
Entomologia
Experimentalis
et Applicata, 141: 97-102.
Journal of Asia-Pacific
Entomology, 12: 169-173.
Entomon, 34: 57-60
Journal of Insect Science,
10:140: 1-13.
Journal of Biological
Control , 24 (3): 218221.
Entomon, 35: 1-5.
Entomon, 35: 1-6.
Journal of Applied
Bioscience, 37: 44-47.
European Journal of
Environmental Sciences
1: 61-66.
Journal of Applied
Biosciences , 37: 118-121.
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2011
74
2012
75
2012
76
2012
77
2012
78
2012
79
2012
80
2012
81
2012
82
2013
Aphididae) in relation to different growth
stages of host pant Chromlaena odorata (L.)
King & Robinson.
Changes in leaf chemicals in different
phonological stages of Chromolaena odorata L.
(King and Robinson) from Tripura
Weed host specificity of the aphid, Aphis
spiraecola: Devlopmental and reproductive
performance of aphids in relation to plant
growth and leaf chemicals of the siam weed,
Chromolaena odorata.
Fish feeding adaptation by
Rhesus Macaaque Macaca
mulatta (Cercopithecidae) in the
Sundarban mangrove swamps
Documentation of
herpetofaunal species richness
in Tripura, northeast India. ,
Host plant based biological and
genetic variations in Aphis gossypii
Glover (Homoptera: Insectaa)
populations from northeast India.
Aquatic insect fauna and diversity
in urban freshwater lakes of
Tripura, northeast India.
Long horned beetles (Coleoptera:
Cerambycidae) and tortoise
beetles (Chrysomelidae:
Caassidae) of Tripura, North
eastern India with some new
additions.
On the morphological and
genotypic variation of banana
aphid Pentolonia (Homoptera:
Aphididae) from India.
Variation in butterfly diversity and
unique species richness along
different habitats in Trishna
wildlife sanctuary, Tripura,
northeast India.
Biology and population dynamics
of giant ladybird predator
Anisolemnia dilatata (F.)
(Coleoptera: Cccinellidae): a
specialized predator of woolly
aphids of bamboo plants in
north east India.
Vegetos, 24: 38-40.
Journal of Insect Science, 12:
24:1-13.
Journal of Threatened Taxa,
4: 2539-2540.
NeBIO, 3(1): 60-70.
Journal of Applied
Bioscience, 38(2):
132- 137.
Middle-East Journal of
Science and Research,
13 (1): 25-32.
Journal of Threatened Taxa,
4(13): 3223-3227
Advances in Life
Science (USA), 2(3):
75-81.
Check List (Brazil), 8(3):
432-436.
World Journal of
Zoology, 8(1): 55 – 61.
83
2013
84
2013
85
2013
86
2014
87
2014
88
2014
Host races of the cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii,
in asexual populations from wild plants of taro
and brinjal
Butterfly species richness and diversity in
Trishna Wildlife Sanctuary in South Asia
Journal of Insect Science
(USA), 13:34: 1-10.
An ornithological survey in the vicinity of
Agartala City, Tripura State, North-east India
New host races of Aphis gossypii (Insecta:
Hemiptera:
aphididae) from northeast India
Journal of Research in
Biology, 3(3) 852-860
Current Science, 107 (7):
1172-1177.
Comparison of oviposition and larval
development of Leptosia nina Fabricius
(Lepidoptera: Pieridae) on two different food
pants in different seasons.
Redescription of Imantocera penicillata
Hope and Eutaenia corbetti Gahan (Coleoptera:
Cerambycidae), with records of host plants
from India.
Lepidoptera Science, 65 (3):
128-135.
Journal of Insect Science
(USA), 13:62: 1-13.
The Coleopterists Bulletin
(UK), 68 (4): 1-8
Chapters published in books/Proceedings
1. Agarwala, B.K. and Saha, J.L. 1986. Larval voracity, development and relative abundance of predators
of Aphis gossypii on cotton in India. In Ecology of Aphidophaga (ed. I. Hodek), Academia, Prague
& Dr. W. Junk, Dordrecht, 339-344.
2. Agarwala, B.K. 1995. Critical Bioecological Factors of aphids as vectors. In Proceedings of Second
Agricultural Science Congress, (eds. M.S. Swaminathan et al.), National Academy of Agriculture
Science, New Delhi, 182- 195.
3. Agarwala, B.K. 1996. Host-related behavioural responses in insect populations and their genetic basis.
In Biotechnological Persectives in Chemical Ecology of Insects (ed. T.N. ananthakrishnan), Oxford
& IBH Publications Co. Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 102 – 115.
4. Agarwala, B.K. and Bhattacharya, S. 1999. Effective biocotrol agents and their use in IPM strategy of
the mustard aphid. In IPM System in Agriculture (eds. R. K. Upadhyay, K.G. Mukherji and R.L.
Rajak), Aditya Books Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 77-89.
5. Chakrabarti, S., Das, J., and Agarwala, B.K. 2004. Diversity of forest resources in protected and
degraded forests of the Tripura state: a sample study. In Proceedings of the national seminar on
Biodiversity (eds. R.C. Srivastava et al.), Tripura University, Agartala, 114-127.
6. Agarwala, B.K. and Bhowmik, P.J. 2007. Effect of chemical defence on fitness of ladybird predator,
Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius). In Journal of Biological Control (Special Issue), Bangalore,
89-96.
7. Ray Chaudhuri, Parichita, Sil, S.K. and Agarwala, B.K. 2014. Host Plant-based biological and genetic
variations in Aphis gossypii Glover (Homotera: Insecta) populations from north east India. In
Chapter 31: In Environment, Biodiversity and Traditional System, 313-322, Biotech Books, New
Delhi
8. Agarwala, B.K. 2014. Butterfly diversity in wildlife sanctuaries and natural forests of Tripura. In
Chapter 31: In Environment, Biodiversity and Traditional System, 333-349, Biotech Books, New
Delhi.
9. Majumder, J. and Agarwala, B.K. 2014. Diversity and distribution of predaceous coccinellids
(Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in agro- and forest ecosystems of Tripura, northeast India. . In
Chapter 31: In Environment, Biodiversity and Traditional System, 391-402, Biotech Books, New.
.
10. Agarwala, B.K. 2014. Role of Phenotypic Plasticity in Diversification of Insects, pp.1-12. In: V.V.
Ramamurthy & S. Subramanin (Eds.) Invited Lectures – Natl. Symp. Entomology as a Science and
IPM as a Technology – the Way Forward., Entomological Society of India, New Delhi.
MONOGRAPH
Agarwala, B.K. and Ghosh, A.K. 1985. Oriental Aphidoidea: Key to the genera and synoptic list.
Memoirs of the Zool. Surv. India, 16 (3): 1-188 + 199 figures.
Books authored
Ghosh, A.K. and Agarwala, B.K. 1993. The Fauna of India and Adjacent Countries: Homoptera:
Aphidoidea: Part 6: Subfamily Greenideinae. Zoological Survey of India, Govt. of India,
Kolkata, pp. xiv + 330. [Citations: 41.]
Agarwala, B.K., S. Sinha and B.K. Datta. 2006. Environmental Science: A brief digest. Published
by Tripura University, Agartala, pp. 74. (Text book for UG students of all disciplines as
Foundation Course).
Book edited: Agarwala, B.K. 1986. Aphidology in India. AR Printers, Kolkata, 11