T. VASISTA*, M. S. V. CHALAM, K. V. HARI PRASAD and G . MOHAN NAIDU

Department of Entomology, S. V. Agricultural College, Tirupati- 517 502, Chittoor Dt., A.P., India

ABSTRACT

A survey was conducted in ten major pulse and groundnut growing mandals of Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh. From each mandal five villages were selected for collecting Coccinellids, and the survey to know the species composition was conducted from August to January months. A total of twelve Coccinellid species were recoreded from both pulse and groundnut crop ecosystems. Of these ten species of Coccinellids viz., Cheliomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius), Coccinella transversalis Fabricius, Coccinella septumpunctata Linnaeus, Illeis cincta (Fabricius), Harmonia octomaculata (Fabricius), Brumoides suturalis (Fabricius), Micraspis discolor (Fabricius), Scymnus nubulis Mulsant Jauravia dorsalis (Weise) and Pseudospidimerus trinotatus Thunberg were reported from pulse crop ecosystems and Nine species of Coccinellids viz., Cheilomenes sexmaculata, Coccinella transversalis, Illeis cincta, Harmonis octomaculata, Brumoides suturalis, Micraspis discolor, Scymnus nubulis, Chilocorus nigritus (Fabricius), Anegleis cardoni (Weise) were reported from groundnut crop ecosystems.

KEYWORDS:

Predaceous coccinellids, pulses, groundnut, survey