Corn delphacid
Peregrinus maidis (Ashmead, 1890)
Status not recordedinsects
The corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis) is a species in the family Delphacidae, order Hemiptera. Source checklists list it for 75 countries, including Angola, Antigua & Barbuda and Argentina.
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Quick facts about the corn delphacid
- 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
- 75 countriessrc for Countries on record
Where does the corn delphacid live?
Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.
The corn delphacid is listed for 75 countries.
- Listed
- Not listed
The same countries as a list
- Angola
- Antigua & Barbuda
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Cayman Islands
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Cuba
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- Gabon
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Grenada
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Indonesia
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Laos
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
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- Mozambique
- Myanmar (Burma)
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Panama
- Peru
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Samoa
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- St. Kitts & Nevis
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent & Grenadines
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Tonga
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Turks & Caicos Islands
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Is the corn delphacid endangered?
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.
How is the corn delphacid classified?
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumArthropoda
- classInsecta
- orderHemiptera
- familyDelphacidae
- genusPeregrinus
- SpeciesPeregrinus maidis (Ashmead, 1890)
Synonyms Delphacodes albinotatus, Delphax maidis, Delphax psylloides, Dicranotropis maidis, Liburnia psylloides, Megamelus teapae albinotatus, Peregrinus maydis, Pundaluoya simplicia
Other names and names in other languages (6)
- Corn planthopperEnglish
- Maize planthopperEnglish
- トウモロコシウンカJapanese
- Цикада кукурузнаяRussian
- 玉米飛蝨Chinese
- Tomorokoshi-unkaJapanese
Relatives of the corn delphacid
Other species in the same genus Peregrinus.
Common questions
Answered only where our data holds the answer.
Where does the corn delphacid live?
Catalogue of Life checklists list the corn delphacid for 75 countries, including Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas and Bangladesh. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.
What kind of animal is the corn delphacid?
The corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis) belongs to the family Delphacidae in the order Hemiptera.
Sources and how to cite this page
Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.
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Tobias, J.A. et al. (2022) AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds. Ecology Letters 25: 581–597. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13898. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16586228.v7 - Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
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