Department of Entomology, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India
*Corresponding author's: Santoshkumar C. Kedar (Research Fellow) ID No: 40923, Department of Entomology, G.B. Pant University of Agri & Tech., Pantnagar-263145 (U.S. Nagar) Uttarakhand. E-mail: santosh_ kedar_agri@yahoo.co.in
Online published on 29 November, 2011.
Surveys on coccinellid predators associated with solenopsis mealybug, Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, infesting cotton and other host plants in and around Hisar, Haryana revealed that six species of coccinellids i.e. Scymnus coccivora Ayyar, Nephus regularis Sicard, Brumoides suturalis Fabricius, Hippodamia variegata Goeze, Cheilomenes sexmaculata Fabricius and Coccinella septempunctata L. were associated with P. solenopsis.
