Genus Laodelphax Fennah, 1963
Family Delphacidae
Subfamily Delphacinae
Tribe Delphacini
Distribution: Widespread in Palearctic and Indo-Malayan region.
Type species (in original combination): Delphax striatella Fallén, 1826.
Recognized species
Laodelphax striatellus (Fallén, 1826) - Widespread in Palearctic, plus China.
Laodelphax truncata Surya Kant Sharma et al. 1981 - India
Recorded hosts:
Laodelphax striatellus is polyphagous, but hosts include rice, maize, oats (Avena sativa), tall oatgrass (Arrhenatherum elatius), Wheat (Triticum sp.), and barley (Hordeum vulgare).
Economic importance:
Laodelphax striatellus, the small brown planthopper, is of major importance on a variety of crop systems. It vectors Barley yellow striate mosaic virus (BYSMV), Maize rough dwarf virus (MRDC), Northern cereal mosaic virus (NCMV; including the Wheat rosette stunt virus - WRSV), Rice stripe tenuivirus (RSV), Rice black-streaked dwarf virus (RBSDV), and Wheat chlorotic streak virus (WCSV).
Recognition
Laodelphax striatellus
Male
Female
Molecular resources
A wide variety of molecular resources are available, including Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs), for Laodelphax striatellus on Genbank here. BOLD at this time has 38 barcode specimen records for Laodelphax striatellus (here)
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Bai, X., S.Z. Dong, K. Pang, Y.L. Bian, and X.P. Yu. 2010. Identification of one yeast-like symbiont from the small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus (Fallen) (Homoptera: Delphacidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 53(6): 640-646.
Caciagli, P. 1991. Effect of anaesthesia with carbon dioxide on vectoring ability and survival of the planthopper Laodelphax striatellus. Annals of Applied Biology 119(2): 257-264.
Caciagli, P. and A. Casetta. 1986. Maize rough dwarf virus (Reoviridae) in its planthopper vector Laodelphax striatellus in relation to vector infectivity. Annals of Applied Biology 109(2): 337-344.
Caciagli, P. and A. Casetta. 1991. Effects of carbon dioxide anaesthesia on the ability of the planthopper Laodelphax striatellus to vector maize rough dwarf virus. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica 26(1-2): 171-174.
Cheng, C.H. 2003. Studies on the population dynamics and forecasting population abundance of smaller brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus (Fallen) on rice in Taiwan. Plant Protection Bulletin (Taiwan) 45(1): 17-33.
Deng, K., Y. Yang, and C. Hu. 1997. Cytoplasmic incompatibility caused by Wolbachia in small brown planthopper, Laodelphax striatellus Fallen. Journal of Fudan University Natural Science 36(5): 500-506.
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Miyake, T. 1966. Studies on the bionomics of three species of planthopper Laodelphax striatellus Fallen, Sogatella furcifera Horvath and Nilaparvata lugens Stal, especially on their siapause. Bulletin of the Hiroshima Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station 24: 1-53.
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