CENTURION UNIVERSITY OF

AGRICULTURE SCIENCES

ENTOMOLOGY
ORDER:COLEOPTERA
FAMILIES:COCCINELLIDAE
BRUCHIDAE
 ORDER:COLEOPTERA
COLEO=sheath, PTERON=wing
Beetles and weevils
Elytra are shell like(fore wings)
 This is the largest order in class insecta comprising about
1/3rd or 40% of the known insect species
 Head highly sclerotized free normal or prolonged into a snout
as in weevils
 Mouthparts are chewing type with well developed mandibles
 Prothorax large and freely movable, mesothorax much reduced
and fused with metathorax
 Two pairs of wings present. Fore wings are horny or leathery
known as elytra which atleast always meet to form a straight mid
dorsal suture. Hindwing are membraneous
 Legs are well developed for walking, running and tarsal segments
are variable

 The larvae are known as grubs

 Pupa exarate
 Metamorphosis is complete and complex
 FAMILY:COCCINELLIDAE
Lady bird beetles or coccinellid beetles

 Beetles of moderate size,oval, convex dorsally and horizontal

ventrally, brightly coloured and spotted.

 . Tarsal formula is 4:4:4.

 Grubs are usually covered with minute tubercles or spines
 Both adults and grubs of most of the species are highly predacious
feeding on soft bodied insects
 Genus epilachna are phytophagous
 Eg:Predator on aphids-Menochilus sexomaculata

Predator on cottony cushion scale-rodalia cardinalis

Lady bird beetle on brinjal-Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata
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 Tarsal formulae is 5:5:5
 Larvae usually undergo hypermetamorphosis.
 Eg:Pulse beetles:Callsobruches chinensis

Callosobruchus maculatus