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There are over 50 delphacid species of economic importance (see table below). Of these, the most important species are the brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens), a pest of rice in the Old World tropics and adjacent temperate regions; Sogatella and Tagosodes species (the white-backed planthoppers, the white-backed planthopper is Sogatella furcifera, WBPH); also on rice; the small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus) on rice and cereals; Saccharosydne saccharivora, Eumetopina flavipes, and various Perkinsiella species (especially P. saccharicida sometimes called that sugarcane planthopper, on sugarcane, and the corn planthopper (Peregrinus maidis).
Important planthoppers not found in North America are:
1. The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens)
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2. The small brown planthopper (SBPH, Laodelphax striatellus)
More images of the small brown planthopper here.
3. The whitebacked planthopper (WBPH, Sogatella furcifera)
More images of the white-backed planthopper here.
4. The island sugarcane planthopper (Eumetopina flavipes)
Delphacid pests of plants, updated from Wilson and O'Brien (1987) |
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Delphacid species |
Plant taxon |
Disease Vector |
Locality |
Comments |
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Chilodelphax albifascia (Matsumura) |
barley, fescue, maize, oats, orchard grass, rice, sorgum, sugarcane, wheat |
Yes |
PA |
Also as Unkanodes albifascia (Matsumura) in literature |
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| Delphacodes catilina Fennah, 1958 | Rice, Wheat, Oats, Barley, Rye | Yes | IM | As Toya catilina; Vectors African cereal streak virus (ACSV), which is evidently a synonym of Maize streak monogeminivirus |
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Dicranotropis fumosa Matsumura |
sugarcane |
IM |
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Dicranotropis hamata (Boheman) |
oats |
Yes |
PA |
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Eumetopina flavipes Muir |
sugarcane |
Yes |
IM |
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Eoeurysa flavocapitata (Muir) |
sugarcane |
IM |
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Falcotoya lyraeformis (Matsumura) |
rice |
PA |
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Harmalia anacharsis Fennah |
rice |
IM |
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Harmalia sirokata (Matsumura & Ishihara) |
barnyard grass, rice |
IM, PA |
As Opiconsiva in Wilson & O'Brien, 1986 |
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Javesella discolor (Boheman) |
oats |
Yes |
PA |
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Javesella dubia (Kirchbaum) |
tall oat-grass |
Yes |
PA |
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Javesella obscurella (Boheman) |
oats, wheat |
Yes |
PA |
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Javesella pellucida (Fabricius) |
barley, maize, oats, tall oat-grass, wheat |
Yes |
NA, PA |
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Laodelphax striatellus (Fallen) |
Polyphagous, barley, citrus, maize, rice, oats, wheat |
Yes |
IM, PA |
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Malaxodes farinosus Fennah |
molasses grass(?) |
ET |
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Megadelphax sordidulus (Stål) |
oats, timothy, wheat |
Yes |
PA |
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Megamelus davisi Van Duzee |
water lily |
AP, NA |
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Metadelphax propinqua (Fieber) |
sugarcane |
Yes |
IM |
As Liburnia graminicola (Matsumura) in Wilson & O'Brien, 1986 |
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Metadelphax propinqua (Fieber) |
barley, barnyard grass, Bermuda grass, grass, maize, rice, speargrass, sugarcane |
Yes |
AF, IM, NA, NT, PA |
As Toya in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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Muellerianella fairmairei (Perris) |
oats, wheat |
Yes |
PA |
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Nilaparvata bakeri (Muir) |
Leersia, rice |
Yes |
IM |
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Nilaparvata lugens (Stål) |
rice |
Yes |
AP, IM |
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Nilaparvata meander Fennah |
rice |
ET |
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Nilaparvata muiri China |
barnyard grass, Leersia, rice |
Yes |
IM |
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Nilaparvata wolcotti Muir & Giffard |
sugarcane |
NT |
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Paradelphacodes paludosa (Flor) |
rice |
PA |
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Peregrinus maidis (Ashmead) |
kola, maize, sorghum |
Yes |
AF, AP, IM,NA, NT |
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sugarcane |
AP |
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sugarcane |
AP |
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Perkinsiella rattlei Muir |
sugarcane |
AP |
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Perkinsiella saccharicida Kirkaldy |
sugarcane |
Yes |
AF, AP, IM |
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Perkinsiella sinensis Kirkaldy |
sugarcane |
AP, IM, PA |
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sugarcane |
PA |
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Perkinsiella vastatrix (Bredddin) |
sugarcane |
Yes |
AF, AP, IM, PA |
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Perkinsiella vitiensis Kirkaldy |
sugarcane |
Yes |
AP |
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Purohita cervina Distant |
bamboo |
IM |
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Purohita taiwanesis Muir |
bamboo |
IM |
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Saccharosydne procerus (Matsumura) |
rice, wild rice |
PA |
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Saccharosydne saccharivora (Westwood) |
sugarcane |
Yes |
NA, NT |
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Sogatella furcifera (Horvath) |
pangola grass, maize, millet, rice |
Yes |
AP, IM, PA |
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Sogatella kolophon (Kirkaldy) |
barley, carrot, coconut palm, maize |
Yes |
AF, AP, IM, NA, NT |
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Sogatella vibix (Haupt) |
barnyard grass, maize, rice, triticale |
Yes |
AP, IM, PA |
As Sogatella longifurcifera (Esaki & Ishihara) in Wilson & O'Brien, 1986 |
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Sogatella vibix (Haupt) |
rice |
Yes |
PA |
As Sogatella panicicola (Ishihara) in Wilson & O'Brien, 1986 |
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Sogatella vibix (Haupt) |
barley, barnyard grass, grass, maize, oats, rice, rye, wheat |
Yes |
AF, PA |
As Sogatella suezensis (Matsumura) in Wilson & O'Brien, 1988 |
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Sogatellana geranor (Kirkaldy) |
rice(?) |
IM |
As Sogatodes in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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coconut palm, rice |
Yes |
AF, NA, NT |
As Sogatodes in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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barley, oats, rice, rye, wheat |
Yes |
NA, NT |
As Sogatodes in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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rice(?) |
IM |
As Sogatodes in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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Tarophagus prosperina (Kirkaldy) |
taro |
Yes |
AP, IM |
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Terthron albovittatum (Matsumura) |
barnyard grass, rice |
Yes |
IM, PA |
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Toya dryope (Kirkaldy) |
carrot |
AP |
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Toya terryi (Ishihara) |
rice |
IM, PA |
As Sogatodes in Wilson & O'Brien, 1987 |
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Tropidocephala brunnipennis Signoret |
rice |
AF, AP, IM, PA |
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Tropidocephala formosana Matsumura |
sugarcane |
IM |
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Tropidocephala saccharivorella Matsumura |
sugarcane |
IM |
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Unkanodes sapporonus (Matsumura) |
rice |
Yes |
IM, PA |
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Unkanodes tanasijevici (Dlabola) |
maize, sorgum, wheat |
Yes |
PA |
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Locality: AF = Afrotropical (Ethiopian), AP = Australo=Pacific, IM = Indo-Malayan (Oriental), NA = Nearctic, NT = Neotropical, PA = Palearctic. |
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