The Indian grain aphid (Sitobion miscanthi), also known as Sitobion (Sitobion) miscanthi, is an aphid in the superfamily Aphidoidea in the order Hemiptera. It is a true bug and sucks sap from cereal plants, making it a pest of wheat production. It has also been recorded as a pest of finger millet, sorghum, and pearl millet in South Asia.[1]
| Indian grain aphid | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Sternorrhyncha |
| Family: | Aphididae |
| Genus: | Sitobion |
| Species: | S. miscanthi
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| Binomial name | |
| Sitobion miscanthi (Takahashi, 1921)
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A high-quality draft of the S. miscanthi genome 377.19 Mb in size was sequenced to help promote research on the lifestyle and feeding specificity of aphids and their interactions with each other and species at other trophic levels.[2]
References edit
- ^ Kalaisekar, A (2017). Insect pests of millets: systematics, bionomics, and management. London: Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-804243-4. OCLC 967265246.
- ^ Chen, Julian; Fan, Jia; Zhang, Yong; Li, Qian; Zhang, Siyu; Yin, Hang; Qin, Yaoguo; Zhang, Qian; Jiang, Xin (2019-08-01). "A chromosome-level draft genome of the grain aphid Sitobion miscanthi". GigaScience. 8 (8). doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz101. PMC 6701489. PMID 31430367.
- http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/51740
- http://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Sitobion_miscanthi/classification/
- http://www.plantwise.org/KnowledgeBank/Datasheet.aspx?dsid=51740
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