Taxonomic study of subfamily-Tortricinae (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)

ISBN-13: 9786139902866 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 52 str.

Mushtaq Ganai

Opis

The common name "leaf roller" has been applied to this family owing to its larval habit of shelter building by folding or rolling leaves of the food plants. The larvae of these moths employ a wide range of feeding strategies, many have the habit of leaf rolling some are gall makers, root borers, fruit borers, flower feeders etc. (Horak and Brown, 1991; Powell et al., 1998). Tortricidae has been divided into three subfamilies Tortricinae, Olethreutinae and Chlidanotinae (Horak, 1998). In general, members of the subfamily Tortricinae tend to be polyphagous, while Olethreutinae have narrower host range and hosts of Chlidanotinae are poorly known. In case of Kashmir and Ladakh, 64 species of tortricid moths have been reported (Razowski 2006), although no exhaustive study has been performed and the few works that have been published offer only little information about tortricid moth diversity.

O autorze

Ganai, Mushtaq
Mushtaq Ganai obtained M Sc in Plant protection from Aligarh Muslim University and Ph D from Sher-e-Kashmir university of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir. He is member of many national and international entomological organizations. He has published more than 20 research papers and also authored many book chapters on various topics.