Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation

Hirohumi Tomita

Shigeru Suzuki

Shuko Okui

Nobuo Kyomura

Yoshiaki Higashino

Yoshiya Ikeda

A indazole compound useful as an agricultural and horticultural insecticide, miticide, and/or fungicide which is represented by the formula set out below, wherein R.sup.1 represents hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkoxy, or a halogen; R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are preferably hydrogen atoms; and R.sup.4 represents, for example, hydrogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkoxy, a halogen, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 haloalkoxy, a 5- to 7-membered cycloalkoxy, a C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkylthio, a phenylamino, an N-(C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 alkyl)-phenylamino, pyrrole-yl, imidazole-yl, pyrrolidino, piperidino, or phenoxy. ##STR1##

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