Brown planthopper

Weight

Not recorded

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

Not recorded

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Young per litter or clutch

Not recorded

Conservation status

Not recorded

Countries on record

22 countriessrc for Countries on record

The brown planthopper is listed for 22 countries.

The same countries as a list

1. Bangladesh
2. Cambodia
3. Fiji
4. Guam
5. Hong Kong SAR China
6. Indonesia
7. Laos
8. Malaysia
9. Micronesia
10. Myanmar (Burma)
11. Nepal
12. New Caledonia
13. North Korea
14. Pakistan
15. Palau
16. Papua New Guinea
17. Philippines
18. South Korea
19. Sri Lanka
20. Taiwan
21. Thailand
22. Vietnam

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumArthropoda
3. classInsecta
4. orderHemiptera
5. familyDelphacidae
6. genusNilaparvata
7. SpeciesNilaparvata lugens (Stål, 1854)

Synonyms Delphacodes ordovis, Delphacodes parysatis, Delphacodes sordescens, Delphax lugens, Delphax ordovix, Delphax oryzae, Delphax parysatis, Delphax sordescens, Hikona formosana, Kalpa aculeata, Liburnia sordescens, Nilapalvata orgyae, Nilapalvata oryrzae, Nilaparvata greeni, Nilaparvata oryzae

Catalogue of Life

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• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
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@misc{brown_planthopper_2026,
  title = {Brown planthopper (Nilaparvata lugens)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/brown-planthopper},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}