Hieroglyphus banian

TaxID: 227568

Basic Information

Hieroglyphus banian

Rice Grasshopper

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. 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.

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Taxonomic Information

Metazoa

Arthropoda

Insecta

Orthoptera

Acrididae

Hieroglyphus

banian

unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Hieroglyphus banian
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(c) Yuwaraj Gurjar@BY-NC
Hieroglyphus banian
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(c) Anil Kumar Verma@BY-NC
Hieroglyphus banian
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(c) Dinesh Sharma@BY-NC
Hieroglyphus banian
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(c) Dinesh Sharma@BY-NC
Hieroglyphus banian
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(c) Girish Chonkar@BY-NC

Morphological Features

Cerci bifurcate, upper branch recurved anteriorly towards head and lower branch elongate and acute. Pronotum with median carina weak, crossed by three sulci; first sulcus present laterally, second centrally, third and posterior sulci entire.

Source: GBIF Life Stage: Adult Source Type: Taxonomic treatment
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Plazi taxonomic treatment

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (4 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
Ecuador Quarantine pests —
Ghana Quarantine pests —
Japan Quarantine pests —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (4 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
India Present —
Nepal Present —
Pakistan Present —
Viet Nam Present —

Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (0 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

No DNA barcode records available.

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