“…Ants that attend aphids belong largely to the most evolved subfamilies Myrmicinae, Formicinae and Dolichoderinae (Tizado et al, 1993). Noteworthy contributions on the natural enemies of aphids in India were made by Rao (1969), Raychaudhuri (1978), Ghorpade (1981), Ghosh and Raychaudhuri (1982), Stary and Ghosh (1983), Agarwala and Ghosh (1988), Singh et al (1999), Joshi (2005), Dey and Akthar (2007), Akthar et al (2011), Chaudhary and Singh (2012), Joshi and Sangma (2015), Bhat and Bhagat (2017), Khan et al (2017), Bhat et al (2020), Kale et al (2020) and Maji et al (2023). In India, aphid-ant association has been mainly dealt with Gadiyappanavar (1970), Roy and Behura (1980), Kurl and Misra (1980), Datta et al (1982Datta et al ( , 1983, Devi and Singh (1986), Verghese and Tandon (1987), Devi et al (1987), Devi et al (2001), Bisht et al (2002), Joshi (2005), Kataria and Kumar (2013) and Rakshan and Ahmad (2015).…”