Hieroglyphus banian is a species of grasshopper in the family Acrididae. It is a pest of millets such as sorghum, pearl millet, and finger millet in India.[1] It is an annual pest and the eggs require the cycle of dry summer followed by monsoon rains to hatch. The species has an olfactory neuronal pathway remarkably similar to that of Schistocerca. [2]

Hieroglyphus banian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Orthoptera
Suborder: Caelifera
Family: Acrididae
Genus: Hieroglyphus
Species:
H. banian
Binomial name
Hieroglyphus banian
(Fabricius, 1798)
Synonyms

Gryllus banian

Notes

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  1. ^ Kalaisekar, 2017
  2. ^ Singh and Joseph, 2019

References

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  • Kalaisekar, A. Insect pests of millets: systematics, bionomics, and management. Elsevier (2017). ISBN 978-0-12-804243-4.
  • Singh, S., Joseph, J. Evolutionarily conserved anatomical and physiological properties of olfactory pathway through fourth-order neurons in a species of grasshopper (Hieroglyphus banian). J Comp Physiol A 205, 813–838 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00359-019-01369-7