Food‐plant selection by <i>Poecilocerus hieroglyphicus</i> (Klug) (Acrididae: Pyrgomorphinae) and some of the receptors involved

Abstract

S ynopsis An account is given of food‐plant selection by the grasshopper Poecilocerus hieroglyphicus. Sense organs on the antennae and palpi are described, and their possible role in the location and preliminary testing of food is discussed.