Genus Nilaparvata Distant, 1906

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• Nilaparvata Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [473].

  Type species:

   Nilaparavata greeni Distant, 1906 by original designation.
• Kalpa Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [474].

  Type species:

   Kalpa aculeata Distant, 1906 by original designation.
• Hikona Matsumura, S. 1935. Revision of Stenocranus Fieb. (Hom.) and its allied species in Japan-Empire. Insecta Matsumurana 9: 125-140 [139].

  Type species:

   Hikona formosana Matsumura, 1935 by original designation.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Muir, F. & Giffard, W.M. 1924. Studies in North American Delphacidae. Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 15: 1-53 [16] (synonymy of Kalpa)
• Okada, T. 1977. Taxonomic characters for identification of the rice brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens) and its related species in the Asian and Pacific Region. pp. 1–26 in Anon. The Rice Brown Planthopper. Taipei : Food and Fertilizer Technology Center for the Asian and Pacific Region pp. 258. [2] (synonymy of Hikona)

Introduction

This genus contains almost 20 species distributed around the globe from Puerto Rico in Central America, across Africa and Asia to the Pacific. Four species have been recorded in Australia including the economically important brown planthopper, N. lugens (Stål) in Queensland.

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Tasmania

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld: Sydney Basin (SB), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW) ; NSW, NT, Qld, Tas: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; NT, Qld, Tas: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Tasmanian West (TWE)

Diagnosis

Distinguished from all other Australian delphacids by the presence of one or more lateral spines on the first hind tarsomere. The frons has two submedian carinae.

ID Keys

Fennah 1965: 4
Wilson & Claridge 1990: 38

Diagnosis References

Fennah, R.G. 1965. Delphacidae from Australia and New Zealand (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Entomology 17(1): 1-59 [4]

Wilson, M.R. & Claridge, M.F. 1991. Handbook for the Identification of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Rice. Wallingford : CAB International 142 pp. [38]

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