author(s)
Neelima Talwar

abstract
Adequate utilization of food resources by resorting to temporal and spatial partitioning has been observed in 13 field species belonging to Families Curculionidae and Bruchidae. The species are Curculio c-album (Fabricius), Curculio ficusi Pajni and Singh, Indocurculio minutus Pajni, Singh and Gandhi, Apotomorrhinus cribratus Schonherr, Sitophilus rugicollis Casey, Apion (Thymapion) majorinum Faust, Acallopistus sp., Hypera postica (Gyllenhal), Tanymecus indicus Faust. (F-Curculionidae), Bruchidius albizziae Arora, B. pygomaculatus Arora, B. saundersi (Jekel)and B. multilineolatus Arora (F- Bruchidae).