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    Coleo 2

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of beetle families in the order Coleoptera. It describes 5 families - Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae, Cerambycidae, Apionidae, and Curculionidae. For each it provides 1-2 defining traits, examples of pest species, and notes on larvae feeding habits and impacts as pests on crops.

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of beetle families in the order Coleoptera. It describes 5 families - Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae, Cerambycidae, Apionidae, and Curculionidae. For each it provides 1-2 defining traits, examples of pest species, and notes on larvae feeding habits and impacts as pests on crops.

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of beetle families in the order Coleoptera. It describes 5 families - Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae, Cerambycidae, Apionidae, and Curculionidae. For each it provides 1-2 defining traits, examples of pest species, and notes on larvae feeding habits and impacts as pests on crops.

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    The document summarizes key characteristics of beetle families in the order Coleoptera. It describes 5 families - Scarabaeidae, Chrysomelidae, Cerambycidae, Apionidae, and Curculionidae. For each it provides 1-2 defining traits, examples of pest species, and notes on larvae feeding habits and impacts as pests on crops.

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    ORDER:

    COLEOPTERA
    Family : Scarabaeidae
    • Chafer beetles, horn beetles, dung rollers, root grubs.

    • tarsal formula 5:5:5,

    • Adults usually feed on foliage. Grubs typically scraboid and feed on roots
    known as root grubs which are very serious pests of most of the crops,
    while some feed on organic matter living in manure pits.
    • The grubs are sluggish, stout and usually white in colour and called as
    white grubs.
    • Eg. Oryctes rhinoceros – Rhinoceros bettle on coconut

    • Holotrichia serrata – Root grub on sugarcane

    • Anomalavarians – Chafer beetles on fruit trees.


    Family: Chrysomelidae
    Flea beetles, leaf beetles
    • Tarsal formula is 5:5:5
    • Adults generally feed on leaves causing numerous holes and
    also on flowers. Some grubs feed on foliage, some act as leaf
    miners
    • Eg:
    • Rice hispa - Dicladispa armigera
    • Pumpkin beetles - Raphidopalpa foveicollis.
    Family: Cerambycidae
    • These are elongate and cylindrical beetles with very long
    filiform / serrate antennae atleast two thirds as long as the
    body,
    • Tarsal formula is 5:5:5
    • Most of the grubs are tree borers.

    • Eg. Mango stem borer - Batocera rufomaculata

    • Grapevine stem gridler - Sthenias grisator

    • Longicorn beetles on cucurbits - Apomycyna pertigera


    Family: Apionidae
    • Eg. Sweet potato weevil – Cylas formicarius
    Family: Curculionidae
    • Weevils, snout beetles.

    • head prolonged to form a pronounced snout or rostrum .In many species,


    it exhibits sexual dimorphism being better developed in females acting as
    a boring instrument for placing the eggs.
    Eg: Red palm weevil - Rhynchophorus ferrugenius
    • Rice weevil - Sitophilus oryzae

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