Morphology and biology of litter-inhabiting Buchananiella indica Muraleedharan (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae)

Authors

  • Chandish R Ballal ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, India
  • Kazutaka Yamada Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Hachiman-cho, Tokushima, 770-8070 Japan
  • Sunil Joshi ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect Resources, Bengaluru 560 024, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v41i1.118

Keywords:

Anthocorid, biology, Buchananiella indica, diagnostic characters, predatory potential, rearing

Abstract

The life history, biological parameters and predatory potential of litter- inhabiting Buchananiella indica Muraleedharan (Hemptera: Anthocoridae) have been investigated. The adult, egg and immature stages of this anthocorid are described with live images. Buchananiella indica is amenable to continuous rearing on eggs of Corcyra cephalonica Stainton (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) and the anthocorid was continuously reared for 20 generations. Fertility studies indicated that the reproductive rate is 12.6 and the finite rate of increase 1.08.

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Published

2016-03-31

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Ballal, C. R., Yamada, K., & Joshi, S. (2016). Morphology and biology of litter-inhabiting Buchananiella indica Muraleedharan (Hemiptera: Anthocoridae). ENTOMON, 41(1), 11–20. https://doi.org/10.33307/entomon.v41i1.118

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Vol. 41 No. 1 (2016)

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