author(s)
P Maheswara Reddy, M Shankara Murthy, A Prabhuraj, Shivaleela and Jai Prakash Narayan RP

abstract
Among the Sub-families of Pyraloidea, Spilomelinae is the largest followed by Crambinae, Pyraustinae, etc. which comprises about 4,085 described species under 327 genera. It is one of the most economically important group which comprises of fruit borers, shoot borers, leaf webbers, leaf rollers, etc. In the present study, the specimens which were already collected and reared to an adult stage on their respective hosts at the Department of Agricultural Entomology, College of Agriculture, Bheemarayanagudi were utilized to characterize the genera and species of adults Spilomelinae associated with economically important flower crops based on morphological and genital characters. The results revealed that a total of five species viz. Glyphodes vertumnalis Guenee, Nausinoe geometralis (Guenee), Nausinoe perspectata (Fabricius), Nausinoe peuritia (Cramer) and Palpita vitrealis (Rossi) on jasmine were identified. All these species differ in both morphological and genital characters. Further, genitalia, wing venation and adult habitus photographs were provided.