Indian Journal of Entomology
Open Access
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  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 86
  • Issue: 1

Morphometrics of male genitalia in rice yellow stem borer Scirpophaga incertulas populations from Telangana

  • Author:
  • R Athulya1,2, A P Padmakumari3,*, Uma T Maheswari1, A Kalaisekar4
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Published Online: Apr 19, 2024
  • Page Number: 65 to 69

1College of Agriculture, PJTSAU

2Institute of Wood Science and Technology, Bengaluru, 560003, Karnataka, India

3ICAR-Indian Institute of Rice Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, Telangana, India

4ICAR-Indian Institute of Millets Research, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad, 500030, Telangana, India

*Email: padmakumariento@gmail.com (corresponding author): ORCID ID 0000-0003-2318-2540

Online Published on 20 April, 2024.

Abstract

Morphometric characterization of male genitalia is an important aspect for studying intraspecific variation in Lepidoptera. In this study, size variation in the male genitalia of rice yellow stem borer (YSB) Scirpophaga incertulas (Walker) collected from nine locations through sex pheromone traps was examined. Measurements of male genitalial parts like uncus length (UL), uncus width (UW), valva length (VL), valva width (VW), saccus length (SL), saccus width (SW), aedeagus length (AD) were considered. Significant size variation was observed among the populations, and the measurements SL, SW, VL, VW, UL, UW and AD contributed to about 16% to location variability. The results showed that all characters except valva width was significantly different (p≤0.05) among the nine populations.

Keywords

Rice Scirpophaga incertulas, Male genitalia, Intraspecific variations, Uncus, Valva, Saccus, Aedeagus, Morphometrics, Principal, Components, Cluster analysis