May 2012

The influence of trichome characters of soybean (Glycine max Merrill) on oviposition preference of soybean pod borer Etiella zinckenella Treitschke (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) in Indonesia

  Study of oviposition behavior of Etiella zinckenella Treitschke on several Indonesian localcultivars of soybean, Glycine max (L.) Merrill was conducted with multiple choice and no choice tests. This study confirmed that sequence of eggs oviposition of E. zinckenella on tropical region does not differ with other results on non-tropical region. Total number...

Author(s): Agus D. Permana, Asni Johari, Ramadhani Eka Putra, Soelaksono Sastrodihardjo  and Intan Ahmad

May 2012

Biodiversity of spiders’ fauna in the Frontier Region, Peshawar, Pakistan

  Spiders can survive in most environments and are polypagous; therefore, they have great biodiversity. To explore spider fauna of Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, 23 species of spiders belonging to 15 genera and 9 families were collected and identified from April to September 09, 2010. The identified families were 4% each for...

Author(s): Farzana Perveen, Ahmad Jamal, Samina Yasmin and Khalid Usman Khatak