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.Kalaisekar, 2017 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. Singh and Joseph, 2019
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References 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