Species Nilaparvata lugens (Stål, 1854)

Nilaparvata lugens (Stål)

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Museums

Regional Maps

• Delphax lugens Stål, C. 1854. Nya Hemiptera. Öfversigt af Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. Stockholm 11(8): 231-255 [246].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) NHRM sex, quantity unknown, Java.
• Delphax sordescens Motschulsky, V. von 1863. Essai d'un catalogue des insectes de l'îIle Ceylan. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou 36(3): 1-153 [109].

  Type data:

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

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
• Kalpa aculeata Distant, W.L. 1906. Rhynchota. Hemiptera-Homoptera. The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma 3: 1-503 [474].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BMNH sex, quantity unknown (coll.: Green), Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
• Delphax ordovix Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [152].

  Type data:

   Holotype BPBM ♀ (coll.: vi.1904, holotype by monotypy), Brisbane, Queensland.
• Delphax parysatis Kirkaldy, G.W. 1907. Leafhoppers — Supplement (Hemiptera). Bulletin of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association Experimental Station Entomological Series 3: 1-186 [153].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) BPBM ♀, quantity unknown (coll.: viii.1904), Cairns, Queensland.
• Delphax oryzae Matsumura, S. 1907. Die Cicadinen Japans. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 6: 83-116 [86].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown.
• Hikona formosana Matsumura, S. 1935. Revision of Stenocranus Fieb. (Hom.) and its allied species in Japan-Empire. Insecta Matsumurana 9: 125-140 [139].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown.

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 D. sordescens, N. greeni, K. aculeata, D. ordovix and D. parysatis)
• 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. [3] (synonymy of D. oryzae and H. formosana)
• Bellis, G.A. & Donaldson, J.F. 2015. Reassessment of some of Kirkaldy's Australian species of Delphacini (Hemiptera: Delphacidae: Delphacinae). Austral Entomology 1-13 [First published on line 17 December 2015 with pagination 1–13. Print version published August 2016, vol 55(3), 247-260] [5]

Generic Combinations

• Nilaparvata lugens (Stål, 1854). —
  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]

Introduction

This species is one of the world's worst and most studied pests of rice and is found from India and Sri Lanka through Asia and tropical Australasia to the western Pacific. It has been recorded as a pest of rice in Korea since 18 AD and in Japan since 697 AD (Okamoto 1924, Suenaga and Nakatsuka 1958, both quoted in Mochida & Okada 1979). It is known to transmit Grassy stunt of rice. Wilson & Claridge (1990) summarised current knowledge of the species but a massive volume of research publication has continued to emerge since that time. The species was first recorded in SE Queensland, as Delphax ordovix, by Kirkaldy (1907).

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Qld: South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

All stages: phloem feeder, vector.

Extra Ecological Information

This species is the vector of Rice Ragged Stunt Oryzavirus and Rice Wilted Stunt Virus (= Rice Grassy Stunt Tenuivirus) overseas.

Diagnosis

Yellowish-brown to dark brown. Carinae on vertex faint; median carina on frons distinct. The male genitalia are distinctive. Aedeagus slender and upturned. Parameres very distinctively shaped. Inner margin of valvifer VIII in female rounded at base. (Wilson & Claridge 1990)

ID Keys

Wilson & Claridge 1990: 49

Diagnosis References

Wilson, M.R. & Claridge, M.F. 1991. Handbook for the Identification of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Rice. Wallingford : CAB International 142 pp. [50]

General References

Mochida, O. & Okada, T. 1979. Taxonomy and Biology of Nilaparvata lugens (Hom. Delphacidae). pp. 21–44 in Anon. Brown Planthopper: Threat to Rice Production in Asia. Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines : International Rice Research Institute 369 pp. [21]

Wilson, M.R. & Claridge, M.F. 1991. Handbook for the Identification of Leafhoppers and Planthoppers of Rice. Wallingford : CAB International 142 pp. [50–52]

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