A review of the Indian species of genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) with bio-ecological notes on P. major, a pest of Pinus wallichiana A. B. Jacks (Pinaceae) in Kashmir, India

Autorzy

• Abdul Lateef Khanday University of Kashmir, Post Graduate Department of Zoology, Section of Entomology, Srinagar-190006, Jammu and Kashmir, India, e-mail: lateefkhanday@gmail.com
• Abdul Ahad Buhroo University of Kashmir, Department of Zoology, Entomology Research Section, Srinagar˗ 190006, India,
  e-mail: abuhroo@yahoo.com
  ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9576-1165
• Ivan Andreevich Kerchev Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Tomsk, 634055, Russia
• Sudhir Singh Forest Research Institute, Forest Entomology Division, New Forest, Dehradun – 248006, Uttarakhand, India
  
• R M Zubair University of Kashmir, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Department of Zoology, Section of Entomology, Srinagar-190006, India

Abstract

The Indian species of the genus Polygraphus Erichson, 1836 (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) collected from various localities of the Western Himalayan region and the species available at the National Forest Insect Collection (NFIC), Forest Research Institute, Dehradun (India) were studied and are reviewed herewith. A key to Indian species of Polygraphus is provided. Detailed bioecological field and laboratory observations of P. major including mating behaviour, gallery pattern, life cycle and seasonal history are reported.

Keywords

• Polygraphus
• bioecology
• Kashmir
• bark beetles