New Horizons in Insect Science Towards Sustainable Pest Management

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Contents

Part I Insect Taxonomy

Insect Taxonomy—Basics to Barcoding ................................................ 3
K. Sreedevi, Naresh Meshram and P. R. Shashank

DNA Barcoding for Identification of Agriculturally
Important Insects ..................................................................................... 13
S. K. Jalali, Rakshit Ojha and T. Venkatesan

Part II Insect Physiology

Changes in Body Melanisation and Not Body Size
Affect Mating Success in Drosophila immigrans .................................. 27
Shama Singh

Do Size and Age of Female Trichopria Sp.
Influence Longevity, Reproductive Performance,
and Sex Ratio? ......................................................................................... 39
N. Veena and D. Manjunath

Impact of Adult Size and Sib, Conspecific,
and Random Mating in Trichopria Sp.
on Progeny Production and Sex Ratio ................................................... 47
N. Veena and D. Manjunath

Importance of Formic Acid in Various
Ethological States of Oecophylla smaragdina
(Fabricius) ................................................................................................ 53
VV Vidhu and DA Evans

Metabolites of Pseudomonads: A New Avenue
of Plant Health Management .................................................................. 61
Janardan Jani, Noushad Parvez and Deepak Mehta