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Issue: Vol. 64 No. 1: 7 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-07
DOI: 10.12976/jib/2025.64.1.3
Page range: 19-30
Abstract views: 87
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Review of Indian Oulema (s. str.) species with red pronotum and metallic elytra, with a note on the identity of cereal leaf beetles in India (Chrysomelidae, Criocerinae)

Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani P.O., Thiruvananthapuram 695 522, Kerala, India.
Mendel University in Brno, Department of Zoology, Fisheries, Hydrobiology and Apiculture, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic.
Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh 176 062, India.
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ARPIT CHOPRA

Department of Entomology

Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur, Himachal Pradesh 176 062, India
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SHASHWAT SOOD

Department of Entomology

Department of Entomology, Kerala Agricultural University, Vellayani P.O., Thiruvananthapuram 695 522, Kerala, India
Oulema duftschmidi Oulema nigrofrontalis Oulema rotundicollis Zea mays pest redescription Palaearctic Region Oriental Region

Abstract

The Indian fauna comprises three species of Oulema (s. str.) with orange pronotum and black or blue elytra: Oulema duftschmidi (Redtenbacher, 1873), O. nigrofrontalis Takizawa and Basu, 1987, and O. rotundicollis (Jacoby, 1908). All three species are redescribed based on the study of the type specimens. The cereal leaf beetle Oulema duftschmidi is newly recorded in India. All published records of O. melanopus (Linnaeus, 1758) in India pertains to O. duftschmidi. Oulema nigrofrontalis Takizawa & Basu, 1987 is reported as a pest of maize for the first time. All three species are illustrated and diagnosed.

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