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Batocera
rufomaculata
DeGeer
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| Origin | : | Exotic |
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| Occurrence | : | On Timber |
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| Distribution: |
| India - Assam, Bengal, Bihar, Bombay, Central India, Madras, North west Fronntier Provinces,Punjab and United Provinces; Baluchistan, Burma
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| Description: |
| 1 1/2th inches,dark with with a fine greyish vestiture, pronotum with 2 kidney - shaped orange yellow spots, scutellum white,elytra in basal third with numerous black tubercles,and several yellowish spots variable in number and shape.
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| Seasonal occurrence: |
| March -August.
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| Life Cycle Duration: |
| Annual. |
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| Egg |
| Female lays up to 200 eggs placed one by one in incisions cut in the bark with the mandibles. Egg is a brownish - white cylinder, 6.2 mm, with narrowly rounded ends. |
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Larva |
| The pupal chamber is a 2 - 3 inch cavity.The pupal period lasts for three to four weeks.
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Pupa |
| About 10 mm long, it feeds at first in the meristem and later penetrates deeper. The larval excavations are extensive irregular and deep in the sapwood they are packed with very coarse chips and fibres of wood and bark.
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Adult |
| The beetle emerges by a short tunnel running to the exterior and ending in a circular exit - hole. The maximum life recorded is eight months.
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| Nature of damage caused |
| Beetle feeds on bark of living shoots. Larva usually bores in dead wood, also bores in branches and trunks of unhealthy living trees. |
| Control Measures |
| Grubbing-up attacked trees,Collection of beetles,use crude oil or furnace oil,Silvicultural methods,Patrols, and disposal of attacked trees or timber. |
| Host Range ( Click any one Host Range to view details) |
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Mangifera
indica
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Sterculia
villosa
Roxb.
ex
Smith
Hevea
br
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Ficus
infectoria
Willd.
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Morus
australis
Poir.
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Dyera
costulata
Hook.
f.
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Bombax
malabaricum
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| References |
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| Beeson,C.F.C. and Bhatia,B.M.(1939).On the Biology of the Cerambycidae (Coleoptera).Ind.For.Rec.(N.S.),Ent.,5(1), 235p. |
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| Roonwal, M.L. and Bhasin,G.D.1954.A List of Insect Pests of Forest Plants in India and the Adjacent Countries.Ind.For.Rec.Bul.No.171(1). |
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| Stebbing ,E.P.1914. Indian Forest Insects of Economic Importance Coleoptera.Eyre and Spottiswoode Ltd.Publisher, London. |
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| Beeson,C.F.C.1941.Ecology and Control of the Forest Insects of India and the Neighboring Countries.Vasanth Press Dehra dun. |
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