1Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, Raichur584104, Karnataka, India
2Department of Entomology, School of Agriculture, Mohan Babu University, Tirupati517102, Andhra Pradesh, India
3Insect Systematics Laboratory, Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Keladi Shivappa Nayaka University of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Shivamogga577412, Karnataka, India
*Email: smurthyent@gmail.com (corresponding author)
A survey was carried out to document the Heliothinae associated with major crops from Kalyana Karnataka region. A total of four species viz., Helicoverpa armigera Hübner, Helicoverpa assulta Guenee, Heliothis peltigera Denis and Schiffmuller and Adisura atkinsoni Moore were collected and described. Of these, H. assulta on Capsicum annuum L. and H. peltigera on Helianthus annuus L. were recorded for the first time from Karnataka. Further, all the four species have been described for taxonomic characters with images and provided with keys. Besides, DNA barcoding was done for all four collected species and results showed 99–100% similarity with reference database of NCBI.
A. atkinsoni, species distribution, host plants, genital dissection, DNA barcoding, COI gene, phylogenetic analysis, genetic divergence, H. armigera, H. assulta, H. peltigera, primer pair, keys, survey
