Click Beetles (Elateridae) Found in Eggplant Plantings in Azerbaijan
Nazakat Ismayil-zade1* 
, Huseyn Aghalizade2
Abstract. The increase in the demand of the population of Azerbaijan for vegetable products has made it necessary to expand the cultivation areas of these plants. Therefore, along with other vegetable crops, various measures are being implemented in the country to increase eggplant plantings as well. In order to obtain high yield from eggplant fields, carrying out control measures against pests, diseases and weeds is of great importance. The conducted studies have shown that in eggplant cultivated fields of farmer farms engaged in vegetable growing in the republic where no control against harmful organisms is carried out, productivity decreases by approximately 55–60% every year. This situation negatively affects the economic condition of farmer farms. As a result of the research carried out in eggplant plantings it has been determined that the role of pests in the decrease of productivity is very important. In the Ganja–Gazakh region the species damaging eggplant fields were accurately identified for the first time. The studies have shown that 13 pest species belonging to four orders are distributed in these fields. Six species of them belong to the click beetle family and among this group one of the species causing the greatest damage to the crop is considered to be the field click beetle — Agriotes sputator L.
Keywords: eggplant, agrocenosis, Elateridae, Coleoptera, Agriotes sputator L.