Welcome to National Pusa Collection
India’s oldest and largest Insect Collection for Agricultural Important Insects, housing over five lakh specimens
National Pusa Collection is an integral section of the Division of Entomology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. Division of Entomology is one of the first five Divisions of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute established in 1905. The Division has pioneered in investigations in insect systematics and economic entomology vis-a-vis important crop pests. Over the last 50 years, NPC has directly contributed to the discovery and description of more than 1500 arthropod species previously unknown to science. Several taxonomic treatises on agriculturally important insects belonging to orders Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera and class Acarina have been published. Read more ....
LAB NEWS
National Moth Week 2025 from 19-27 July, 2025
Meghalaya’s Wonder: Umiam now home to newly discovered two micromoth species
Insect Discoveries: ICAR-IARI National Pusa Collection (2017-2022)
A catalogue of Indian Gelechiidae Stainton, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Gelechioidea)
DNA barcoding of insects from India: Current status and future perspectives
Four new ant species from India