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