Agriculture Entomology Table Important 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. |
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 |
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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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