| Common Name |
Scientific Name |
Family |
Nature of Damage |
| Surface |
Chrotogonus grasshopper Blanch |
O: Orthoptera
F:Acridiidae
Trychypterus |
Feeds on tender leaves, flowers
and tender pods |
| Small grasshopper |
Oxyavelox F.
tcitarica L. |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Green Tobacco |
Attractomorpha crenulata F. |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Grasshopper |
|
|
|
| Grasshopper |
Eyprepochemis alacris S. |
do |
Feeds on tender leaves and growing
tips |
| |
Catantops erubescens WIK. |
do |
Feeds on tender leaves and growing tips |
| |
Ailopus simulatrix WIK. |
do |
Feeds on tender leaves and flowers |
| |
Acrotylus humbertianus S |
do |
Feeds on leaves and flowers |
| |
Cyrtacanthacris tcitarica L. |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Field Cricket |
Liogryllus bimaculatus De C |
F: Gryllidae |
Feeds on developing pods and seeds |
| |
Gryllus Sp. |
do |
Seedling feeder |
| |
|
Order: Isoptera |
|
| Termites |
Odontotermes sp. |
Termitidae |
Damage tap root |
| |
|
Order: Hemiptera |
|
| Black Aphid |
Aphis craccivora Koch |
Aphididae |
Sucks sap from tender leaves flower stalks and
pods |
| Pea Aphid |
Acrythosiphon pisum (haris) |
do |
Sucks sap from growing tips, flowers and pods |
| Mealy bug |
Ferrisiana virgato Coccidae |
Coccidae |
Sucks sap from leaves |
| Mirid bug |
Crenotiades pallidifer(Wlk) |
Miridae |
Sucks sap |
| Cow bug |
Tricentrus bicolor Dist. |
Membracidae |
Sucks sap |
| |
|
Order: Lepidoptera |
|
| Greasy cutworm |
Agrotis ipsilon (Hfn) |
Family: Noctuidae |
Cuts the whole plant or growing tips and feed
on the leaves |
| Cutworm |
A. flammatra Schiff |
do |
Cuts the stem and growing tips |
| |
A. biconica Kol. |
do |
Cuts the stem and the shoots |
| |
Euxoa spinifera (Hub) (=A. spinifera Hb.) |
do |
Cuts the plant at ground level |
| |
E. segetum schiff (=A. segetum Dennis and schiff) |
do |
Cuts the plant at ground |
| Armyworm |
Mythimna separata (wlk) |
do |
Cuts the plant and feed on the leaves |
| Green leaf caterpillar |
Azazia rubricans (Bosid) |
do |
Feeds on leaves and pods |
| Semilooper |
Autographa nigrisigna wlk. |
do |
Feeds on leaves and whole pods |
| |
Plusia orichalces F. |
do |
Feeds on leaves and whole pods |
| |
P. signata F. |
do |
Feeds on leaves and whole pods |
| |
Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esp) |
do |
Feeds on leaves and flowers |
| Tobacco caterpillar |
Spodoptera litura F. |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| |
S.exigua (Hub) |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Gram pod borer |
Helicoverpa armigera (Hub.) |
do |
Feeds on leaves, flowers and bores holes on the
pod and eats away the seeds |
| |
H.assulta Cn |
do |
Feeds on leaves, flowers and pods |
| Noctuid caterpillar |
Rhyacia herwlea C & D |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Green leaf hopper |
Anticarsia irrorata (F) |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Armyworm |
Cirphis loreyi Dup |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Pea Pod Borer |
Etiella zinckenella (Triet) |
Phycitidae |
Feeds on pods |
| Fig moth |
Caudra cautella (wlk) |
do |
Feeds on stored grain |
| Blue butterfly |
Lampides boeticus (L) |
Lycaenidae |
Feeds on flowers, buds and pods |
| Bihar hairy caterpillar |
Diacrisia obliqua(L) |
Arctiidae |
Feeds on leaves |
| Hairy caterpillar |
Creatonotus gangis Linn. |
do |
Feeds on leaves |
| Leaf Webber |
Lamporsema indicata F. |
Pyralidae |
Feeds on leaves |
| |
|
Order: Diptera |
|
| Gram stem miner |
Ophimyia cicerivora Spencer |
Agromyzidae |
Feeds on the stem |
| Leaf miner |
Chromatomuia horticola (Goreav) |
do |
Larvae mine leaves and feed on green matter |
| Pea leaf miner |
Phytomyza articomis (Meig) |
do |
Larvae mine leaves and feed on mesophyll |
| |
|
Order: Coleoptera |
|
| Gujhia weevil |
Tanymecus indicus F. |
Curculionidae |
Damages the seedling |
| Weevil |
Tylopholis ballardi Mshll |
do |
Gnaws and scrapes young stem |
| White grub |
Holotrichis consonguinea Blanch |
Melonthidae |
Feeds terminally on roots |
| Pumpkin beetle |
Aulacophora foveicollis (Lucas) |
Chrysomelidae |
Feeds on leaves |
| Chrysimelid beetle |
Luperodes Sp. |
do |
Feeds on seedling |
| Soil beetle |
Gonocephalum elongatum F. |
Tenebrionidae |
Feeds on roots and young stem |
| |
G.depressum F. |
do |
Feeds on roots |
| |
G. dorsogranosum F. |
do |
Feeds on roots and stem |
| Bruchids |
Callosobruchus chinensis(L) |
Bruchidae |
Feeds on stored seed |
| |
C. maculatus |
do |
do |
| |
C.phaseoli (Gylh) |
do |
do |
