Indian Horticulture Journal
Open Access
  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue: 1

The Asian Walnut Moth Erschoviella musculana Erschoff, 1874 (Nolidae: Lepidoptera) A New Pest of Walnut for Kashmir Valley of J&K, India

  • Author:
  • Z H Khan, V V Ramamurthy, Mudasir A Dar, R H Raina
  • Total Page Count: 2
  • Page Number: 55 to 56

*Division of Entomology, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (Pusa), New Delhi110 012, India. E-mail: zkmadiha5@gmail.com

Biosystematics Laboratory Division of Entomology, S. K. University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar - 191 121, Srinagar, (J & K), India

Online published on 8 May, 2013.

Abstract

Present study is on first record of Asian Walnut moth Erschoviella musculana Erschoff 1874 (Lepidoptera: Nolidae) as a new pest of walnut for Kashmir valley. This study includes the information on detection and identification of damage and diagnostic features of pest supported with original photographs.

Keywords

Erschoviella musculana, Walnut, Pest, Kashmir valley