Sitobion miscanthi

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. 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.[1]

Indian Grain Aphid
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Family:
Aphididae
Genus:
Sitobion
Species:
S. miscanthi
Binomial name
Sitobion miscanthi
(Takahashi, 1921)
Synonyms
  • Macrosiphum eleusines Theobald, 1929
  • Macrosiphum miscanthi Takahashi, 1921
  • Sitobion eleusines Theobald, 1929

References
  1. 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.


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