Biodiversity of coccinellids in cabbage crop on various location of Purvanchal Uttar Pradesh Prajapati Satyam, Tripathi Manoj Kumar, Khan Akhtar Ali1 Department of Entomology, Tilak Dhari Post Graduate College, JaunpurUttar Pradesh 1Professor, Division of Entomology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, J&K. Online published on 18 May, 2022. Abstract The present study deals with Coccinellidae of Jaunpur, Azamgarh and Varanasi district of Purvanchal Uttar Pradesh. The study was undertaken for a period of two years and the weekly collections were done from Jan to April in 2020 & 2021 at three sites of selected districts. A total of 317 & 331 specimens of coccinellids were collected from Cabbage ecosystemsduring year 2020 and 2021, respectively. The result reveals the occurrence of 06 species belonging to subfamily Coccinellinaa and 5 genera. Among the collected ladybird beetle Coccinella septumpunctata (Linnaeus) and Coccinella transversalis (Fabricius) were the most abundant species where as Cheilomenes sexmaculata (Fabricius), Hippodemia variegate (Goeze), Propylea dissecta (Mulsant) & Adalia tetraspilota (Hope) were found in all the places of sampling sites. When species diversity index was compared among different locations it was found that Shannon-Wiener biodiversity index varied from 1.406 to 1.497 and 1.487 to 1.515 during 2020 & 2021, respectively. Top Keywords Diversity of coccinellids in UP, Cabbage ecosystem, Ladybird Beetle. Top |