A review of the Indian species of genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with bio-ecological notes on P. major, a pest of Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks (Pinaceae) in Kashmir, India
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2020-09-18
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The Indian species of the genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) collected from various localities of the Western Himalayan region and the species available at the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India) were studied and are reviewed herewith. A key to Indian species of Polygraphus is provided. Detailed bioecological field and laboratory observations of P. major including mating behaviour, gallery pattern, life cycle and seasonal history are reported.
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Acknowledgements: We sincerely thank Roger A. Beaver for his reviews on the earlier drafts of the manuscript especially in the taxonomic part. Finally, we are grateful to the reviewers of our manuscript for their valuable comments. © 2020 Abdul Lateef Khanday et al., published by Sciendo. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 . The Version of Scholarly Record of this Article is published in Folia Forestalia Polonica, Series A – Forestry, 2020, Vol. 62 (3), 171–183, available online at: https://sciendo.com/article/10.2478/ffp-2020-0017 . Keywords: bark beetles; Polygraphus; bioecology; Asia; Kashmir.
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Khanday, A., Buhroo, A., Kerchev, I., Singh, S. & Zubair, R. (2020). A review of the Indian species of genus Polygraphus erichson, 1836 (coleoptera: curculionidae: Scolytinae) with bio-ecological notes on P. major, a pest of Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks (Pinaceae) in Kashmir, India. Folia Forestalia Polonica, 62(3) 171-183. https://doi.org/10.2478/ffp-2020-0017