Himender Bharti

Himender Bharti, Indian entomologist (myrmecology). Fellow of Royal Entomological Society London (FRES).

Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University Patiala, Punjab, India.
Subject Areas of Interest: Biogeography, Phylogenetics, Taxonomy, Evolutionary Biology.

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Bharti, H. 2001. Two new species of Pheidole (Myrmicinae: Formicidae: Hymenoptera) from India. Journal of Entomological Research 25(3): 243–247.

Bharti, H. 2002. Resdescription of Lepisiota modesta Forel (Hym.: Formicidae). Annals of Forestry 10(2): 356–358.
Bharti, H. 2002. Check list of ants from North west India: I. Uttar Pradesh Journal of Zoology 21(2): 163–167.
Bharti, H. 2002. Check list of ants from North west India: II. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 99(2): 341–343.
Bharti, H. 2002. List of formicids (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) at Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun (India). Journal of Entomological Research 26(4): 337–342.

Bharti, H. 2003. Queen of army ant Aenictus pachycerus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Aenictinae). Sociobiology 42: 715–718.
Bharti, H. 2003. Ants and forensic entomology. ANeT News-Letter, Kagoshima University 6: 18–20.
Bharti, H. 2003. Formicidae: an Indian perspective, but a global concern. ANeT News-Letter, Kagoshima University 6: 9–10.
Bharti, H. 2003. A new species of Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: formicidae: myrmicinae) from India. Entomon 28(3): 85–88.
Bharti, H. 2003. A new species of Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Myrmicinae: Formicidae: Hymenoptera) from India. Russian Entomological Journal 12(3): 305–306.
Bharti, H. 2003. Polyrhachis punjabi sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Formicinae) from India. Folia Heyrovskyana 11(1): 1–3.

Bharti, H. 2008. Ants and speciation patterns. ANeT News-Letter, Kagoshima University 10: 6–9.
Bharti, H. 2008. Altitudinal diversity of ants in Himalayan regions (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Sociobiology 52(2): 305–322.

Bharti, H. 2011. List of Indian ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Halteres 3: 79–87.
Bharti, H. & Sharma, Y.P. 2011. Myrmica longisculpta, a new species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51(2): 723–729.
Bharti, H. & Sharma, Y.P. 2011. Myrmica elmesi (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) a new species from Himalaya. ZooKeys 124: 51–58. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.124.1586
Bharti, H. & Sharma, Y.P. 2011. Myrmica radchenkoi, a new species of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Indian Himalaya. Sociobiology 58(2): 427–434. [not seen]

Bharti, H. & Kumar, R. 2012. A New Species of Leptanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) with a Key to Oriental Species. Annales Zoologici 62(4): 619–625. DOI: 10.3161/000345412X659678 Reference page.
Bharti, H. 2012. Myrmica nefaria sp. n. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) — a new social parasite from Himalaya. Myrmecol. News 16: 149–156.
Bharti, H. 2012. Two new species of the genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) from the Himalaya. Tijdschrift voor entomologie 155 (1): 9–14.

Bharti, H., Sharma, Y.P. 2013. Three new species of genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Himalaya. Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology 16: 123–130. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2012.12.006.

Bharti, H.; Akbar, S.A. 2014: Meranoplus periyarensis, a remarkable new ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology, 17(4): 811–815. DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2014.07.014 Reference page.

Akbar, S.A. & Bharti, H. 2015. First verified record of the ant genus Calyptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India, along with a revised key to known Indomalayan species. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e5420. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e5420. Reference page.
Bharti, H. & Rita, J.S. 2015. Taxonomic studies on the ant genus Ponera Latreille, 1804 (Hymenoptera, Formicidae), with the description of a new species from India. Zookeys, 526: 9–18. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.526.5971 Full article Reference page.
Bharti, H.; Akbar, S.A. 2015: First record of genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India with description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology, 18(3): 573–576. Full article (PDF). Reference page.
Wachkoo, A.A. & Bharti, H. 2015. Taxonomy and distribution of the ant Cataglyphis setipes (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4447. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e4447. Reference page.

Bharti, H., Guénard, B., Bharti, M. & Economo, E.P. 2016. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys 551: 1–83. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.551.6767 Reference page.
Bharti, H., Radchenko, A. & Sisal, S. 2016: Socially-parasitic Myrmica species (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Himalaya, with the description of a new species. ZooKeys 605: 113–129. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.605.9087 Reference page.

Streinzer, M., Chakravorty, J., Neumayer, J., Megu, K., Narah, J., Schmitt, T., Bharti, H., Spaethe, J. & Brockmann, A. 2019. Species composition and elevational distribution of bumble bees (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Bombus Latreille) in the East Himalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, India. Zookeys, 851: 71–89. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.851.32956 Reference page.

Subedi, I.P., Budha, P.B., Bharti, H. & Alonso, L. 2020. An updated checklist of Nepalese ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae). ZooKeys, 1006: 99–136. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1006.58808 Reference page.

Bharti, H., Rilta, J.S. & Dhadwal, T. 2021. Two new species of Ooceraea (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Dorylinae) from India with ten-segmented antennae. ZooKeys, 1010: 165–183. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1010.58436 Reference page.