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. |
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 |
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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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