Name: Dr. Viyolla Pavana Mendonce Assistant Professor
Area: Myrmecology-Interspecific study
Affiliation: St. Josephs College, Bangalore
Qualification: MSc., PhD, KSET
Teaching Experience: 3 years
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Trainings
Study of Biology and Taxonomy on Ants organised by ICAR- ICAR Supported Niche Area of Excellance for Capacity building in Taxonomy of Insects and Mites to be held at the in the month of February- 2013 at the department of Entomolgy, University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), GKV
A workshop on research methodology, statistical techniques and use of statistical techniques and use of statistical software, April and May 2013, Department of Statistics, Bangalore University, Bangalore.
Presentations in conferences
Oral presentation “Biodiversity of ant fauna on Pentas lanceolata” presented at the ICIS- Fourt
Interntional Conference on Insect Sciences, February-2013, held at GKVK.
Oral presentation “Importances of fallen mango fruits to ants” orally presented at the 10th national
symposium on soil biology and ecology, December, 2013 held at GKVK
Best Oral presentation award “Equitability of ant fauna on a lone Calotropis gigantea” at the MUBICS
2014 - National Seminar on Management of Urban Biodiversity Organized by Department of Zoology,
CHRIST UNIVERSITY.
Oral presentation “MAHUA (Madhuca longifolia): AN IDEAL LANDSCAPE TREE FOR ANT
CONSERVATION DECEMBER 2016 held at National Conference on Ecology, Sustainable Development
and Wildlife Conservation (NCESW), St. Joseph’s College (Autonomous).
Papers in peer reviewed journals
Abraham Verghese, P. D. Kamala Jayanthi, K. Sreedevi, K. Sudha Devi and Viyolla Pinto, 2013, A quick
and non-destructive population estimate for the weaver ant Oecophylla smaragdina Fab. (Hymenoptera:
Formicidae)" Current Science, Volume 104(5) 641-646.
Viyolla Pinto, Pratheepa M, Reddy M.S and , Abraham Verghese 2016 An incidence of territorial
competition between two ant species in a mango orchard. Current Science, Volume. 111, NO. 12 2044-
2046.
Viyolla Pinto, G Nagalakshmi, Reddy M.S., Abraham Verghese. 2015, Human intervention as a factor of
disturbance: A case study of ants in mango ecosystems, Current Biotica, Volume 9(1), 65-73
Viyolla Pinto, M.S Reddy and Abraham Verghese, 2015, Studies on equitability of ant fauna on an
isolated Calotropis gigantea in an peri-urban garden in Bangalore. Insect Environment, Volume 21(1), 19 –
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Viyolla Mendonce, Abraham Verghese and Reddy M.S. 2017, Co-existence among nectar feeding ant
species: A case study on three flowering plants; Journal of Entomological and Zoological studies, Volume
5(4): 1981-1985.
Birds and Insectivory: Agro-biodiversity Implications in Sustainable Agriculture (2016), Abraham
Verghese, Viyolla Pinto and Senthil Kumar Radhakrishnan, Indian J. Plant Genet. Resour. 29(3): 230-233