ABSTRACT The small tomato fruit borer Neoleucinodes elegantalis is a pest of wild and cultivated solanaceous economic importance, such as tomatoes, eggplant, peppers scarlet eggplant. We compared the development, survival reproduction N. in Solanaceae alternative hosts absence plants field. development time was significantly affected by host plant longer larvae feeding on Survival immature stag...

In this article, we describe a new species, Patania shompen Singh & Ahmad, sp. n. from Great Nicobar Island. The differential diagnosis of the species is provided with iopasalis (Walker, 1859), obfuscalis (Yamanaka, 1998) and clava Xu Du, 2016.

Maruca vitrata is one of the primary biotic constraints for pigeon pea production in India. The present study assessed genetic variation and population structure M. from diverse agro-ecologies India using mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I gene. A low number segregating sites (10), haplotypes (13), nucleotide diversity (0.00136), overall mean distance (0.0013) were observed among populations....