Nilaparvata Explained

Nilaparvata^[1] is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815.

Species are widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, tropical Asia and Australia.^[2] The type species, Nilaparvata lugens, also known as the 'brown planthopper', is a major pest of rice crops.

Species

Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web includes the following:^[2]

• Nilaparvata albotristriata (Kirkaldy, 1907)
• Nilaparvata angolensis Synave, 1959
• Nilaparvata bakeri (Muir, 1917)
• Nilaparvata caldwelli Metcalf, 1955
• Nilaparvata camilla Fennah, 1969
• Nilaparvata chaeremon Fennah, 1975
• Nilaparvata diophantu Fennah, 1958
• Nilaparvata gerhardi (Metcalf, 1923)
• Nilaparvata lugens (Stål, 1854) – type species
• Nilaparvata maeander Fennah, 1958
• Nilaparvata muiri China, 1925
• Nilaparvata myersi Muir, 1923
• Nilaparvata nigritarsis Muir, 1926
• Nilaparvata oryzae (Matsumura, 1907)
• Nilaparvata seminula Melichar, 1914
• Nilaparvata serrata Caldwell, 1951
• Nilaparvata terracefrons Guo & Liang, 2005
• Nilaparvata wolcotti Muir & Giffard, 1924

Notes and References

1. Distant WL (1906) The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma. 3: 503 pp. [347].
2. https://www.hemiptera-databases.org/flow/?page=explorer&db=flow&lang=en&card=taxon&rank=genus&id=5725 Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): Nilaparvata Distant, 1906 (retrieved 14 December 2019)