1. ADULT MORPHOMETRY OF PULSE BEETLES, CALLOSOBRUCHUS MACULATUS (FABRICIUS) AND C. CHINENSIS (LINNAEUS) COLLECTED FROM CHICKPEA GRAINS.
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Premkumari, Saswati, Meena, R. S., Padwal, Kanchan Gangaram, Chakravarty, Snehel, and Srivastava, C. P.
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COWPEA weevil ,BEETLES ,MORPHOMETRICS ,ADULTS ,CHICKPEA - Abstract
Callosobruchus maculatus and C. chinensis are the two predominant species of pulse beetle, found in India, which are generally wrongly identified. These two species of pulse beetles are sexually dimorphic and can be differentiated based on some morphological characters. Callosobruchus maculatus adults were chocolate brown in colour with black markings on the elytra whereas C. chinensis were reddish brown in colour without any markings on the elytra. The total body length of adult C. maculatus males and females was 3.82 ± 0.08 mm and 4.46 ± 0.10 mm, respectively. Whereas, in C. chinensis the length was 3.59 ± 0.04 mm in males and 3.94 ± 0.05 mm in females. The measurements of some other morphological traits of the adult male and female of both the species were also taken such as antennal length, 1.84 ±0.07 mm and 1.93±0.12 mm for male and 1.52 ±0.07 mm and 1.71±0.14 mm for female in C. maculatus and C. chinensis, respectively, elytral length and width, 2.11 ±0.02 mm and 0.98 ±0.04 mm, respectively in male and 2.18 ±0.14 mm and 1.08 ±0.08 mm, respectively in females of C. maculatus. From the present study, it is confirmed that the females of both species were found to be longer than the males and most of the traits of females were larger in size than males except for antennal length. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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