TY - JOUR AU - Sharma, Pushpendra K. AU - Khanduri , Pramod Chandra AU - Rawat , Rashmi Tyagi PY - 2022/05/23 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Species richness and abundance of Coccinellids (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in agricultural ecosystem of Doiwala region, Dehradun (U.K), India JF - Environment Conservation Journal JA - ECJ VL - 23 IS - 1&2 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.36953/ECJ.0211208.2327 UR - https://journal.environcj.in/index.php/ecj/article/view/1307 SP - 395-399 AB - <p><strong>Present study was carried out to know the community structure of coccinellid beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in agricultural ecosystem of Doiwala region, Dehradun (U.K.), India during January 2021 to December 2021. During the study period, a total of 8 species of ladybird beetles, which belong to 7 genera under 1 family, 3 subfamilies and 3 tribes were recorded, viz., <em>Brumoides suturalis </em>(Fabricius), <em>Coccinella septumpunctata</em> (Linn.), <em>Coccinella transversalis</em> (Fab.), <em>Cheilomenes sexmaculata </em>(Fab.), <em>Hippodamia variegata </em>(Goeze), <em>Harmonia dimidiata </em>(Fabr.), <em>Oenopia sauzeti </em>(Mulsant) and <em>Henosepilachna vigintioctopunctata</em> (Li). Out of these eight species, seven were predatory and one was phytophagous<em>. </em>The only phytophagous species was <em>H. vigintioctopunctata</em> (Li). Maximum species of coccinellids were collected from site-3 (7 species), then followed by site-4 (6 species),&nbsp; site-1 and site-2 (5 species each). </strong></p> ER -