22 Insect Environment, Vol.16 (1), April-June 2010 Insect Environment, Vol.16 (1), April-June 2010 23 Seasonal Activity of the Mango Leaf Webber Orthaga Record of Leaf Chafer Beetles Adoretus versutus Harold and euadrusalis Walker (Pyralidae Lepidoptera) Apogonia blanchardi Ritsema on Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) Rajesh Verma and Swati Singh in Andhra Pradesh. RVSKVV, Fruit Research Station, Entkhedi, Bhopal - 462 038, India N. Emmanuel, A. Sujatha and B. Gautam Horticultural Research Station, Andhra Pradesh Horticultural University, The Mango (Mangifera indica) is popularly known as king of fruits. In India Ambajipeta - 533214, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh, India. mango accounts for 22.06 per cent of total area under fruit crops. In Email:
[email protected] Madhya Pradesh, the mango tree is attacked by various pests like scale insect, mealy bug, fruit fly, leaf webber etc. Among the insect pests, mango Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is one of the major commercial plantation leaf webber Orthaga euadrusalis Walker (Pyralidae : Lepidoptera) is one crops of the world. In Andhra Pradesh cocoa is being grown to an extent of 13720 hectares. Most of the area are in East and West Godavari of the major pests responsible for low productivity (Verghese, 1998). It is districts of Andhra Pradesh. In India cocoa is known to be attacked by widely distributed in different agro climatic zones of Madhya Pradesh, about 50 pests. affecting yield by damaging shoots and inflorescence - from April to December (Mishra 2001). The pest's activity was recorded throughout In the course of the present investigation the Adoretus versutus the year on Langra variety of mango at fortnightly interval on pre-marked [Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae] and Apogonia blanchardi Ritsema trees of same age.