Global InformationPoekilocerus pictus information
| Painted Grasshopper | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Orthoptera |
| Suborder: | Caelifera |
| Family: | Pyrgomorphidae |
| Subfamily: | Pyrgomorphinae |
| Tribe: | Poekilocerini |
| Genus: | Poekilocerus |
| Species: | P. pictus
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| Binomial name | |
| Poekilocerus pictus (Fabricius, 1775)
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Poekilocerus pictus, the painted grasshopper, aak grasshopper or ak grasshopper, is a fairly large and brightly coloured species of grasshopper found in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, especially in drier regions.[1][2][3] Both adults and nymphs are toxic; the nymphs are notorious for being able to squirt a jet of noxious liquid at up to around 30 cm (1 ft) away when grasped.[4][5]
P. pictus was long regarded as the only Poekilocerus of the Indian subcontinent (other species are found in Southwest Asia and Africa), but in 2016 a new species, the overall yellowish-brown P. geniplanus, was described from Chhattisgarh.[citation needed]
- ^ "species Poekilocerus pictus (Fabricius, 1775): Orthoptera Species File". orthoptera.speciesfile.org.
- ^ Sultana, R.; et al. (2015). "Studies on the importance of common Calotropis procera (Asclepiadaceae) and close association of Poekilocerus pictus (Fabricus, 1775)". Pak. J. Entomol. 30 (2): 161–164. doi:10.26540/ijgsr.v9.i2.2022.219.
- ^ Bhargava, R.N. (1995). "Ecobiology of the ak grasshopper (Poekilocerus pictus Fab.) in Indian desert". Rec. zool. Surv. India. 95 (1–2): 17–21.
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