Harish Gaonkar

Who is Harish Gaonkar?

Harish S. Gaonkar is an Indian specialist on butterflies who contributed to the Zoological Museum at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark and wrote a 1996 compilation of butterflies of Western Ghats, South India cataloging 330 species. Gaonkar was born in Karwar district, India. Gaonkar earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Born and raised in Hanehalli, Honnayya completed his high school from Anandashram High School, Bankikodla in 1962. In 2001 Harish Gaonkar was a Scientific Associate of the Natural History Museum in London. In the 2004 "Global Butterfly Names" proposal to the ECAT programme of GBIF submitted by J.