Shen Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Insect (chóng) Entry: Ban Kangxi Strokes: 16 Page 1092, Entry 41 Collected Rhymes (Jiyun): Pronounced ban. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen): Banmao is a poisonous insect. Fine Glossaries (Boya): Banmao is also known as Yanqing. Pharmacopoeia (Bencao): Also called banmao, found everywhere. It is five or six tenths of an inch long, with yellow feet and mottled markings, a bird-like abdomen, and a pointed beak. Divine Husbandman's Classic of Materia Medica (Shennong Bencao Jing) states: In spring it eats daphne flowers and is called yuanqing; in summer it eats kudzu flowers and is called tingzhang; in autumn it eats bean flowers and is called banmao; in winter it enters the earth and is called didan. Also pronounced pan. Fuban is a stink bug. Commonly written as pan.