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Notes on three morphs of Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Northern Pakistan

Notes on three morphs of Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Northern Pakistan

Notes on three morphs of Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel) (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) from Northern Pakistan

 Zafar Iqbal1, Muhammad Farooq Nasir1, Imran Bodlah1*, Rahmatullah Qureshi2, Ayesha Aihetasham3

 1Laboratory of Biosystematics, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Crop and Food Sciences, Pir Mehr
Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
2Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi,
Pakistan
3Department of Zoology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

ABSTRACT

 Bulaea lichatschovii (Hummel) is a phytophagous as well as pollinivorous species
on many plants. In this study, three morphs of B. lichatschovii are reported during
2015-2017 from different localities of Northern Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad
Jammu and Kashmir). Three food plants of the coccinellid are, Krascheninnikovia
ceratoides, Artemisia vulgaris and A. maritima, are documented. Notes on
diagnostics of the species are given with illustrations and new distributional
records.

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Punjab University Journal of Zoology

June

Vol.39, Iss. 1, Pages 01-134

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