Pest Management in Horticultural Ecosystems
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 29
  • Issue: 2

An annotated checklist of the genus Popillia (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of India

1Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bengaluru -560065, Karnataka, India

2Division of Germplasm Collection and Characterization, ICAR-National Bureau of Agricultural Insect ResourcesHebbal, Bellary Road, Bengaluru -560024, India

*E-mail: kolla.sreedevi@gmail.com

Online published on 8 August, 2025.

Abstract

Popillia Dejean, 1821 is one of the small genera in the subfamily Rutelinae of Scarabaeidae family. (Coleoptera). The Specis of Popillia are economicaly important pest of several agricultural and horticultural crops. Though several authors though reported the occurrence of these species throughout the Oriental region, a comprehensive checklist of the Indian fauna is not in place. This paper provides a comprehensive checklist of 43 species of the genus Popillia of Indian fauna along with their synonyms, combinations and distribution.

Keywords

Checklist, Popillia, India, Scarabaeidae