"Main to Maqtal mein bhi Qismat ka Sikander nikla ,
Qura'a-e-faal mere naam ka aksar nikla
Tu yahin haar gaya thhaa mere buzdil dushman,
Mujh se tanha ke muqabil tera lashkar nikla." (Ahmed Faraz)
AND
"Be-hunr log kahan, harf ki sachai kahan,
Ab kitaiben kisi darya mein baha di jayen
Ya to khurshid chamkata rahe peshani mein
Ya lakeerein mere maathe ki mita di jayen" (Saleem Kausar)
Focal Interest : Evolutionary Biology
Research Area: Biogeography, Natural History, Speciation Patterns, Taxonomy, Molecular Phylogeny, Ecology, Conservation Biology and Chemical Ecology of Ants
Research Group Assignments: Systematics (Ants of Himalaya and Western Ghats); Molecular Phylogeny, Biology and Phylogeography of genera Myrmica and Aphaenogaster; Cuticular Hydrocarbon profiles of High Altitude Ants
Present Address : Department of Zoology and Environmental Sciences, Punjabi University Patiala , Punjab , India , 147002
Residence: تصور
"tassavur'
# 188, Chinar Bagh
Patiala, 147002
Email:
himender_bharti@yahoo.com
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” Dobzhansky
President ANeT(International network for study of Asian ants)
President IUSSI Indian Chapter
Database of Indian Ants (California Academy of Sciences)
Database of ants of adjoining regions (Nepal, Srilanka, Pakistan, Bhutan, Myanmar )
Formicidae Barcode of Life (DNA Barcoding of Ants)
Faculty K S Krishnan School for Chemical Ecology-NCBS
India Biodiversity Portal-Ants
Ants of India (Harvard University)
Insect Biodiversity Network for Asia
Editor (Halteres and Asian Myrmecology)
Ants in biodiversity conservation in Asia
Mountain Forum
Taxon Editor
Ant Course-Borneo with Brian Fisher, Himender Bharti, Flavia Esteves, Benoit Guénard , Roberto Keller, Laurent Keller, Jack Longino, Corrie Moreau, Chrstian Peeters, Simon Robson, Eli Sarnat, Steve Shattuck, Andy Suarez, Phil Ward
Distinguished Taxonomist Award
(For outstanding contribution to Ant Taxonomy)
Recent Publications
2016 Bharti, H., Radchenko , A. and Sasi S. Socially-Parasitic Myrmica species Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Himalaya, with the description of a new species ZooKeys, 605 : 113–129. (Download PDF)
2016 Bharti, H., Guénard, B., Bharti, M. and Economo, E.P. An updated checklist of the ants of India with their specific distributions in Indian states (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) ZooKeys, 551: 1–83 (Download PDF)
2016 B. Seifert, A. Buschinger, A. Aldawood, V. Antonova, H. Bharti, L. Borowiec, W. Dekoninck, D. Dubovikoff, X. Espadaler, J. Flegr, C. Georgiadis, J. Heinze, R. Neumeyer, F. Odegaard, J. Oettler, A. Radchenko, R. Schultz, M. Sharaf, J. Trager, A. Vesnić, M. Wiezik, H. Zettel. Banning paraphylies and executing Linnaean taxonomy is discordant and reduces the evolutionary and semantic information content of biological nomenclature. Insectes Sociaux DOI 10.1007/s00040-016-0467-1
2016 Bharti, M. and Bharti, H. Association and impact of ectoparasitic blowflies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) on Himalayan ants of genus Myrmica. Insectes Sociaux DOI 10.1007/s00040-016-0480-4
2016 Bharti, H., Gul, I. and Sasi, S. Taxonomy of Temnothorax simlensis stat. nov. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with first description of sexual castes along with a mention of its plesiobiotic association with Himalayan speceis of genus Myrmica. Sociobiology,63 (2): 748-754. DOI: 10.13102/sociobiology.v63i2.869
2016 Bharti, H. and Rilta, J.S. An updated distribution of bigheaded invasive ant Pheidole megacephala in India. Halteres (accepted).
2015 Bharti, H. and Rilta, J.S. 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
2015 Boudinot, B.E.,Wachkoo, A. A. and Bharti, H. The ergatoid male of Platythyrea sagei Forel, 1900 (Formicidae: Ponerinae), with a discussion of the colonial role of male ants. Myrmecological News, 22: 59-64.
2015 Bharti, H. and Rilta, J.S. A New Species and a New Record of the Ant Genus Stigmatomma Roger (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India. Sociobiology, 62(4): 506-512.
2015 Akbar, S.A. and Bharti, H. First record of rare ant genus Calyptomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from India, along with a revised key to known Oriental species. Biodiversity Data Journal, 3: e5420 1-9.
2015 Bharti, H., Akbar, S.A. and Singh, J. Discothyrea periyarensis sp. n., a new proceratiine ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Proceratiinae) from India. Caucasian Entomological Bull., 11 (1): 121–124.
2015 Bharti, H., Akbar, S.A. First record of genus Protanilla (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae) from India with description of a new species.Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology.doi: 10.1016/j.aspen.2015.04.008.18: 573–576.
2015 Bharti, H., Akbar, S.A., Wachkoo, A.A. and Singh, J. Taxonomic studies on ant genus Hypoponera (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae) from India. Asian Myrmecology, 7:37 – 51.
2015 Bharti, H. and Wachkoo, A. A. Neotype designation and redescriptionof Camponotushorseshoetus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 55(1): 381–385.
2015 Wachkoo, A. A. and Bharti, H. Taxonomic review of ant genus Nylanderia Emery, 1906(Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in India.Journal of Asia Pacific Entomology, 8:105-120.
2015 Wachkoo, A. A. and Bharti, H. Taxonomy and distribution of the ant Cataglyphis longipedem (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Biodiversity Data Journal, Doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4447