Muzafar Riyaz

About

I served as a Senior Research Fellow of a SERB-DST (Government of India)-funded project allocated to the Entomology Research Institute (ERI) at Loyola College, Chennai, India. My doctoral thesis explored the co-evolutionary relationship among Noctuoidea moths, that served as a benchmark study from India. Besides the primary research for the PhD, I also undertook several independent research initiatives, such as insect biodiversity, & ethnobotany of Kashmir, & miscellaneous environment studies.

Employment

• Zoological Survey of India Research Associate
  2026 - Present
• Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu Senior Researcher
  2025 - 2026
• St Xavier’s College, Palayamkottai Research Associate
  2023 - 2024
• Department of Science and Technology Senior Reserach Fellow
  2018 - 2021

Education

• Loyola College Doctor of Philosophy
  2019 - 2023

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (45)

• Microplastic Pollution in Wular Lake, Kashmir-India (Ramsar Site): First Report and Associated Risk Assessments
  Soil and Sediment Contamination: An International Journal 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.1080/15320383.2026.2646266
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• Isolation and characterization of caffeic acid from Cobra Lily (Arisaema propinquum) and evaluation of its biological activities
  International Journal of Secondary Metabolite 2026 0 citations DOI: 10.21448/ijsm.1701617
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• Aquatic macroinvertebrate diversity and water quality assessment in Vembannur Wetland, Tamil Nadu, India
  Aquatic Research 2025 0 citations DOI: 10.3153/AR25015
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• Mitochondrial genomics and phylogeny of noctuoid moths: Implications for Macroheterocera
  PLOS One 2025 1 citation DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0333540
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• Plusiinae of Kashmir: Taxonomy, distribution and new faunistic records (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea)
  SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología 2024 1 citation DOI: 10.57065/shilap.919
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• Characterization and Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis of Subfamily Erebinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae) Using Five Complete Mitochondrial Genomes
  Biochemical Genetics 2024 0 citations DOI: 10.1007/s10528-023-10528-0
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• Microplastic Pollution in Urban-Dal Lake, India: Uncovering Sources and Polymer Analysis for Effective Assessment
  Water, Air, & Soil Pollution 2024 16 citations DOI: 10.1007/S11270-024-06901-3
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• Systematic challenges and opportunities in insect monitoring: a Global South perspective
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2024 39 citations DOI: 10.1098/RSTB.2023.0102
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• Taxonomy of Pyraloidea with new distributional records from Northwestern Himalayas, Kashmir-India
  Munis Entomology & Zoology 2023
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• A Checklist of Prominent Moths (Notodontidae: Noctuoidea) with a new distributional record from the Northwestern Himalayas-Kashmir, (J&K UT), India
  Munis Entomology & Zoology 2023
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