Biography

Dr. Muhammad Ather Rafi

National Insect Museum, Department of Plant and Environmental Protection

National Agricultural Research CenterIslamabad, Pakistan
Director


Email: [email protected]


Qualifications
1996 Ph.D., University of Karachi, Pakistan, Insect Ecology
1983 M.Sc., University of Karachi, Pakistan Entomology

1982 B.Sc, University of Karachi, Pakistan, Zoology


Publications (Selected)

  1. Aslam, S., Naeem, M., Hussain, S., Riasat, M., Rafi, M. A., Zia, A., ... & Chen, H. (2024). Biodiversity of Non-Apis Bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) in the Potohar Region of Pakistan. Diversity, 17(1), 4.
  2. Sanaullah, S. A. M., Rafi, M. A., Ahmad, W., Hayat, J., Khan, Q. U., & Rehman, A. Faunistic of Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae from District Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
  3. AFSAR, F., KHAN, M. R., SARWAR, Z. M., ZIA, A., ULLAH, Q., RAFI, M. A., ... & SAMEI, A. (2022). Some Records of Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from District Poonch, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. University of Sindh Journal of Animal Sciences (USJAS), 6(04).
  4. Taj, S., Ali, S., Ahmed, S., Rafi, M. A., Mehmood, S. A., & Shah, M. (2023). Taxonomy and distribution of butterfly fauna of family pieridae (lepidoptera) in district abbottabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. International Journal of Tropical Insect Science, 43(1), 173-182.
  5. Qasim, M., Carpenter, J. M., Khan, M. R., Rafi, M. A., Hassan, M. A., Siddiqui, J. A., & Hafeez, M. (2022). A New Species of Subancistrocerus de Saussure, 1855 (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Eumeninae) from Pakistan. Journal of the Entomological Research Society, 24(3), 291-296.
  6. Ashfaq, M., Khan, A. M., Rasool, A., Akhtar, S., Nazir, N., Rafi, M. A., ... & Hebert, P. D. (2022). A DNA barcode survey of insect biodiversity in Pakistan. PeerJ, 10, e13267.
  7. Rafi, M. A., Mengal, F., Durrani, S., Parveen, G., Ullah, Q., Qasim, M., ... & Rasul, G. (2022). Some Records of Skippers (Lepidoptera: Hesperioidea: Hesperiidae) from Balochistan Province, Pakistan: Skippers Fauna in Balochistan Province. Biological Sciences-PJSIR, 65(1), 1-4.
  8. Qasim, M., Carpenter, J. M., Bokhari, S. H. A., Khan, M. R., Rafi, M. A., Amin, M., ... & Hassan, M. A. (2022). Vespidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) of Multan Region, Pakistan. Oriental Insects, 56(4), 514-545.
  9. Parveena, G., Gulb, S., Kaleemullahc, Z. R., & Rafid, M. A. A Survey Report of Disease Fields of District; Swabi, Buner, Haripur and Mardan Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
  10. Khan, M. T., Rafi, M. A., Sultana, R., Munir, A., & Ahmad, S. (2022). Diversity and bio-geography of subfamily Eumeninae (Vespidae: Hymenoptera) in Sindh, Pakistan.
  11. Khudadad, S., Rafi, M. A., Zia, A., Khan, M. S., Parveen, G., Sheikh, M. K., ... & Shah, S. W. (2021). Ant fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of District Mansehra, Pakistan.
  12. Rauf, S. A., & Ra, M. A. (2017). WASP FAUNA OF SUBFAMILIES VESPINAE) FROM DIR, KHYBE. SCIENCES, 2523, 6067.


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