''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of

planthopper A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment ...

s in the subfamily

Delphacinae DelphacinaeLeach WE (1815) In: Brewster D d."Entomology". ''The Edinburgh Encyclopedia, vol. 9'', 57-172. is a subfamily of delphacid planthoppers in the family Delphacidae. There are at least 1,700 described species in Delphacinae.Bartlett C, W ...

and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, Africa, tropical Asia and Australia.Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web (FLOW): ''Nilaparvata'' Distant, 1906 (retrieved 14 December 2019)
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type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...

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Nilaparvata lugens The brown planthopper (BPH), ''Nilaparvata lugens'' (Stål) (Hemiptera: Delphacidae) is a planthopper species that feeds on rice plants (''Oryza sativa'' L.). These insects are among the most important pests of rice, which is the major staple cro ...

'', also known as the 'brown planthopper', is a major pest of rice crops.

Species

''Fulgoromorpha Lists On the Web'' includes the following: * '' 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) * ''

'' (Stål, 1854) – type species * ''

Nilaparvata maeander ''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, ...

'' Fennah, 1958 * ''

Nilaparvata muiri ''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, ...

'' China, 1925 * '' Nilaparvata myersi'' Muir, 1923 * '' Nilaparvata nigritarsis'' Muir, 1926 * '' Nilaparvata oryzae'' (Matsumura, 1907) * '' Nilaparvata seminula'' Melichar, 1914 * ''

Nilaparvata serrata ''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, ...

'' Caldwell, 1951 * ''

Nilaparvata terracefrons ''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, ...

'' Guo & Liang, 2005 * ''

Nilaparvata wolcotti ''Nilaparvata''Distant WL (1906) ''The fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma.'' 3: 503 pp. 47 is a genus of planthoppers in the subfamily Delphacinae and tribe Delphacini Leach, 1815. Species are widely distributed in the Americas, ...

'' Muir & Giffard, 1924

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* * {{taxonbar, from=Q10600774 Auchenorrhyncha genera Delphacinae Hemiptera of Asia Hemiptera of Africa