pests of palms throughout the world (Faleiro, 2006;Ju et al., 2011). Rhynchophorus ferrugineus originated from the sub-continent (India and Pakistan) and then expands its range towards other regions of the world (Al-Saoud et al., 2010). The RPW cause damage to more than twentysix palm species, belonging to sixteen different genera in almost all palm growing areas of Asia,
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