High Altitude Regional Centre, Zoological Survey of India, Saproon, Solan -173 211, Himachal Pradesh, India
*Corresponding author's present address: Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, Patiala -147 002, Punjab, India
**SUS College of Research & Technology, Mohali 140 306, Punjab, India
Online published on 1 August, 2013.
Ficus religiosa Linnaeus and F. palmata Forsk. (Moraceae) has been recorded as the larval host plants of Phycodes minor Moore. The gross morphology and duration of various life history stages have been recorded.
Phycodes minor, Microlepidoptera, Sesioidea, Bracodidae, Phycodinae, life history, behaviour, larval chaetotaxy
