Yelseti Ramachandra Rao

Yelseti Ramachandra Rao (11 September 1885 – 1 June 1972) was an Indian entomologist and a pioneer in the study and management of the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria).

[1] Rao was born in Yemmiganur, Adoni Taluk, then belonging to Bellary District in the Madras Presidency.

He trained briefly at the Imperial Agricultural Research Institute in Pusa under Maxwell Lefroy.

He published a report on them in 1920 after which he was deputed to Iraq to help the government in establishing entomology research there.

He was a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, an honorary member of the Association d'Acridologie in Paris.