Department of Entomology, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, 813210
*Email: megarimavinod94@gmail.com (corresponding author)
Online published on 18 April, 2020.
Conopomorpha sinensis Bradley is one of the major pests of litchi. The present study is on the taxonomy, symptoms and behaviour of C. sinensis. The adult moths were identified as C. sinensis a small dark coloured moth. Female moths preferred to oviposit on the pericarp of fruits. Its larvae punctured the peduncle of fruits and started feeding on the seed neck and made holes filled with frass inside the nut, and site of pupation was leaves.
Litchi fruit borer, Conopomorpha sinensis, identification, diagnostics, life stages, behaviour, damage, emerging pest
