Morphological Characteristics of Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) of District Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Pakistan J. Zool., vol. 48(5), pp. 1367-1372, 2016. Morphological Characteristics of Ladybird Beetles (Coccinellidae: Coleoptera) of District Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan Kausar Saeed,1, 2* Muhammad Nasir Khan Khattak,1 Fayaz Khan,1 Falak Naz3 and Naveed Akhtar2 1Department of Zoology, Hazara University, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 2 Department of Zoology, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (Buner Campus), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan 3National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Center, Islamabad A B S T R A C T Ladybird beetle is important group of beetles because they are important universal predatory and Article Information occupies important place in biological control. However, the ladybird beetle fauna of Pakistan is not Received 28 October 2015 extensively explored area wise. In this connection, the present study was conducted to explore the Revised 6 January 2016 Ladybird beetle fauna of district Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The study area was divided Accepted 27 February 2016 into twelve different localities namely village (Pirbaba, Kingergali, Daggar, Gokand, Barkalay, Available online 1 August 2016 Budal, Shaheede sar, Nawagai, Nagrai, Chinglai, Totalai and Malka). Collection surveys were conducted in these areas at fifteen days interval in the active season during 2013-14. The Authors’ Contribution identification of the collected specimens during the study revealed that there are thirteen species of NA collected and FN identified the Ladybird beetle under eleven genera and three subfamilies (Subfamily Chilocorinae, Subfamily samples. KS conducted the study. KS, FK and NA wrote the Coccinellini and Subfamily Epilachnini) were collected. These species are Brumoidus suturalis, manuscript. MNKK and FN Coccinella septempunctata, Coccinella transversalis, Menochilus sexmaculatus, Propylea dissecta, supervised the study.
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