Studies on the Selected Economically Important Pyraloidea of Punjab, India

Author: Deepinderpal Singh*, H.S. Rose** and P.C. Pathania***

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Abstract

Lepidoptera being a second largest order of class Insecta having about forty seven super families. Out of these the super family Pyraloidea ranked as third largest with most assorted life history adaptations. To study this varied life, several surveys were conducted in different agricultural fields of Punjab in pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon periods during 2005-10. In this paper, about fifteen economically important species of super family Pyraloidea have been studied including their life history aspects and host.

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moth, pyraloidea, economic, pyralidae, crambidae

Conclusion

Lepidoptera being a second largest order of class Insecta having about forty seven super families. Out of these the super family Pyraloidea ranked as third largest with most assorted life history adaptations. To study this varied life, several surveys were conducted in different agricultural fields of Punjab in pre-monsoon, monsoon and post-monsoon periods during 2005-10. In this paper, about fifteen economically important species of super family Pyraloidea have been studied including their life history aspects and host.

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The super family Pyraloidea comprises more than 15,576 described species worldwide (Nieukerken et al. 2011), and perhaps lot more yet to be described. Among Lepidoptera, pyraloids encompasses varied life history adaptations. Due to their diverse feeding habits, many species noticed to be feed internally or externally on plants as leaf rollers, webbers, leaf miners, borers, root feeders, and some as seed feeders in their imago stage. Ant nests are also noticed to be infested by some species as parasite (Wurthiinae spp.), predate upon scale insects (Phycitinae spp.), or survive in the nests of bees (Galleriinae spp.). Certain Phycitinae and Pyralinae caterpillar are adapted to very rough environments and feed on stored food commodities. With such a range of living habits, pyraloids become a supreme group for biodiversity studies (Schulze, 2000; Nuss, 2000). The present studies deals with the fifteen such economically important species which are enlisted as under mentioned. MATERIAL AND

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Deepinderpal Singh, H.S. Rose and P.C. Pathania (2017). Studies on the Selected Economically Important Pyraloidea of Punjab, India. Biological Forum – An International Journal 9(2): 172-176.