Agriculture Entomology Table- 1

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Agriculture Entomology Table Important Study Material

Agriculture Entomology Table Study Material

Subject:- Agriculture Entomology 

Agriculture Entomology Important Point

 1. Name of Appendages & Segment AgriExam.Com 

Name of Appendages Name of Segment
Pair of compound eyes. Pre antennary
Pair of antennae Antennary
Single labrum Intercalary
Pair of mandibles Mandibular
Pair of Maxillae Maxillary
Labium Labial

 2. Types of Antenae 

Types of Antenae Example AgriExam.Com 
Setaceous (Whip like) Cockroach
Filiform (Threadike) Grasshopper
Moniliform (necklace/ Bead like) Thrips, midge fly, termites.
Clavate (Club shaped) Butterfly
Capitate (Knobbed)  Weevil, khapra beetle
Serrate (saw toothed). Metallic bettle
Lamellate (leaflike)  Dungroller, Rhinocerous beetle.
Pectinate / unipectinate (Comblike) Moth
Bipectinate Silk moth.
Plumose (Whorl like)  Male Mosquito
Pilose (Brush like) Female Mosquito
Geniculate (elbowed) Honey bee, Wasp.
Aristate (Bristle like) House fly
Stylate (Style like) Jassids

 3. Types of Insect Mouth Part 

Mouth Part Insect AgriExam.Com 
Mandibulate type
Chewing and bitting type cockroach, grasshopper
Haustellate type
Piercing and sucking type red cotton bug, Mosquito, aphids, leafhoppers
Chewing and Lapping type Honey bees
Sponging type  House Fly
Rasping and sucking type Thrips (asymmetrical mouth parts)
Siphoning Butterfly
  • Mandibulate Type:- Insects feeding on solid food material.
  • Haustellate Type:- includes insects feeding on liquid material (Food)

 4.Modifications of insect legs / Type of insect legs 

Insect legs Examples AgriExam.Com 
Ambulatorial (Walking type) Some beetles, Bugs
Cursorial (Running type )  Cockroach, Ground and Tiger beetles
Saltorial (Jumping types)  Grasshopper & Crickets.
Fossorial (digging type)  Mole cricket
Raptorial (Grasping type)  Praying mantid, Ambush bugs
Scansorial (Clinging type) Head louse.
Natatorial (Swimming type)  Hind legs of Water bug, Aquatic beetes
Foragial / Carbiculate (Pollen collecting) Hind legs of honey bees (worker)
Sticky legs House fly.

 5.Modifications of Insect Wings 

Insect Wings Examples AgriExam.Com 
Tegmina Cockroach, Mantid, Grasshooper
Elytra Beetles
Hemelytra Bugs
Halteres House fly
Fringed wing   Thrips
Scaly wings  Moths and butterfly.
Membranous wings Wasp and bees

 6.Wing coupling Apparatus AgriExam.Com  

Wing coupling Apparatus Examples 
Jugate type Hepialid moth
Fibulate type (elongated jugum) Caddis fly
Frenate type Moths
Hamulate type Bees and Wasp
Amplexiform Butterflies, Silkmoth.
 
 7.Parasites insects & Their Host Insects  
 
Parasites Insects  Host Insects AgriExam.Com 
Egg parasite Of Insect
Trichogramma australicum Shoot borer of sugarcane.
Trichogramma miniatum Shoot borer of paddy.
Trichogramma chilonis Boll worms of cotton & stem borer of sugarcane.
Telenomus remus Tobacco leaf eating cater pillar.
Larval parasite of Insect
Perisierola nephantidis Coconut black headed caterpillar.
Apanteles angarleti Pink boll worms
Bracon kirkpatricki Boll worms
Egg & Larval Parasite of Insect
Copidosoma Koehleri Potato tuber moth
Chelonus blackburni Boll worm and potato tuber moth
Nymph and adult parasite of Insect
Epiricania melanoleuca Sugarcane pyrilla

 8.Damaging Stages of insects 

Insects Orders Damaging Stages AgriExam.Com 
Coleoptera Larvae (grub) + Adult both stages
Lepidoptera Only Larvae (Caterpillar) Except Fruit sucking moth (FSM). Adult stage of (FSM) causes damage.
Hemiptera Nymph + Adult both stages
Diptera Nymph

 9.Important Polyphagus Pests 

Polyphagus Pests AgriExam.Com 
  • Locust
  • Termite
  • Bihar & Red Hairy Caterpillar
  • White grub.

 10.Orders of Insects AgriExam.Com  

Orders Examples Of Insects 
Orthoptera Locust, Grasshopper, Cockroach
Thysanoptera Thrips
Isoptera Termites
Heteroptera True bugs
Homoptera Aphids, Leaf hoppers
Coleoptera Beetles,Weevils.
Lepidoptera Moths, Butterflies, Silkworm
Diptera Flies.
Hymenoptera Sawflies,Bees, Ants, Wasps,

 11.Types of Larvae: Larva is of 4 types 

Types of Larvae Examples AgriExam.Com 
Nymph Order-Hemiptera ; Bugs, Hoppers, White flies, Aphids, Jassids.
Grub lesser grain borer & order Coleoptera and Mustard Sawfly (Hymenoptera)
Maggot Diptera [all flies except white fly and mustard Sawfly (MSF)]
Caterpillar Lepidoptera; Moth, Bollworm, Borer (Except lesser grain borer)

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