Caryedon serratus

Groundnut is an important food legume in tropical, sub-tropical and temperate countries of the world. In India, groundnut is grown in an area of 5.53 million ha with a production and productivity of 9.67 million tons and 1750 kg/ha respectively. Groundnut quality is usually affected by storage practices and storage periods.

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Peanut seed beetle is one of the major pest in stored groundnut pods and kernels in India. The morphological features head and pronotum, elytra, legs, abdomen and pygidium of Caryedon serratus was explained descriptively with the help of key notes and dissected and genitalia of male and female adult insect were depicted with camera lucida and genitalia characters are descriptions are explained.

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