Indian Journal of Entomology
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  • Year: 2011
  • Volume: 73
  • Issue: 4

Reporting of Unusual Testes in Three Species of Subfamily Ennominae (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

  • Author:
  • Jagbir Singh Kirti, Mandeep Kaur, Tarun Goyal
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 303 to 307

Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala, 147 002

*Email: prjagbir2005@gmail.com

Online published on 16 May, 2012.

Abstract

Three species i.e., Abraxas leopardina (Kollar), Abraxas sp. and Zamarada baliata Felder and Rogenhofer collected from different localities of Himachal Pradesh for studies on their internal genitalic attributes. A pair of testes observed in these i.e., unusual because only single testis is found in various taxa of this family.

Keywords

Lepidoptera, Geometridae, Testes, Ennominae