The red palm weevil, Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier is a widely distributed serious pest of the young coconut and date palms and hence occupies an important status in the field of economic entomology. This book deals with the cytological studies of haemocyte identification and classification; The circulating haemocytes in the haemolymph of R. ferrugineus is identified and classified based on light microscopic and electron microscopic studies. In all the different stages studied, the haemocyte complex comprises prohaemocytes, plasmatocytes, granulocytes, adipohaemocytes, oenocytoids and...