Deshbhushan B. Bastawade
Deshbhushan B. Bastawade (born November 19, 1948 in Miraj , Sangli District , Maharashtra ) is an Indian arachnologist .
Deshbhushan B. Bastawade studied zoology and initially obtained a master's degree. He later did his PhD with a thesis on scorpions . His research mainly concerns spiders , scorpions and roller spiders . Bastawade works in the Western Regional Station of the Zoological Survey of India in Pune .
Bastawade published numerous initial descriptions of arachnids and other scientific articles , either alone or with colleagues . In 1983 he wrote the volume about the scorpions with BK Tikader in the Fauna of India series .
Dedication names (selection)
Two newly described animal species were named after Deshbhushan B. Bastawade:
- Harvestmen
- Homolophus bastawadei ( Das & Bastawade , 2006)
- Scorpions
- Orthochirus bastawadei Zambre , Mirza , Sanap , Upadhye and Javed , 2011
Publications (selection)
- (with BK Tikader) Fauna of India. Arachnids. Vol. 3: Scorpions. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta 1983, Online PDF 29.6 MB.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deshbhushan B. Bastawade , website of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro , accessed November 25, 2017.
- ↑ Wojciech Staręga : Homolophus bastawadei, a replacement name for the homonym Euphalangium martensi (Opiliones: Phalangiidae). In: Journal of arachnology 2013, Volume 41, No. 3, p. 415, doi : 10.1636 / Ha13-58.1 .
- ↑ Amod M. Zambre et al .: A new species of scorpion of the genus Orthochirus Karsch, 1892 (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from Maharashtra, India. In: Euscorpius 2011, No. 107, pp. 1–12, online PDF , 3.5 MB.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bastawade, Deshbhushan B. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bastawade, DB (frequently used short form) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian arachnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 19, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miraj , Sangli (district) , Maharashtra |