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Corn delphacid

Peregrinus maidis (Ashmead, 1890)

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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.

FijiTanzaniaIndonesiaArgentinaKenyaSudanHaitiDominican Rep.BahamasSouth AfricaPeruColombiaPanamaCosta RicaNicaraguaHondurasGuatemalaBelizeVenezuelaSurinamePuerto RicoJamaicaCubaZimbabweSenegalNigeriaCameroonGhanaCôte d'IvoireGuineaGuinea-BissauSierra LeoneGabonZambiaMozambiqueAngolaMadagascarCambodiaThailandLaosMyanmarVietnamBangladeshNew CaledoniaSolomon Is.New ZealandSri LankaTaiwanGeorgiaPhilippinesMalaysiaYemenEthiopiaTrinidad and Tobago
  • Listed
  • Not listed
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The same countries as a list

  1. Angola
  2. Antigua & Barbuda
  3. Argentina
  4. Bahamas
  5. Bangladesh
  6. Barbados
  7. Belize
  8. Bermuda
  9. Cambodia
  10. Cameroon
  11. Cape Verde
  12. Cayman Islands
  13. Colombia
  14. Costa Rica
  15. Côte d’Ivoire
  16. Cuba
  17. Dominica
  18. Dominican Republic
  19. Ethiopia
  20. Fiji
  21. French Guiana
  22. French Polynesia
  23. Gabon
  24. Georgia
  25. Ghana
  26. Grenada
  27. Guam
  28. Guatemala
  29. Guinea
  30. Guinea-Bissau
  31. Haiti
  32. Honduras
  33. Indonesia
  34. Jamaica
  35. Kenya
  36. Laos
  37. Madagascar
  38. Malaysia
  39. Mauritius
  40. Micronesia
Show 35 more countries
  1. Mozambique
  2. Myanmar (Burma)
  3. New Caledonia
  4. New Zealand
  5. Nicaragua
  6. Nigeria
  7. Northern Mariana Islands
  8. Palau
  9. Panama
  10. Peru
  11. Philippines
  12. Puerto Rico
  13. Samoa
  14. Senegal
  15. Seychelles
  16. Sierra Leone
  17. Solomon Islands
  18. South Africa
  19. Sri Lanka
  20. St. Kitts & Nevis
  21. St. Lucia
  22. St. Vincent & Grenadines
  23. Sudan
  24. Suriname
  25. Taiwan
  26. Tanzania
  27. Thailand
  28. Tonga
  29. Trinidad & Tobago
  30. Turks & Caicos Islands
  31. Venezuela
  32. Vietnam
  33. Yemen
  34. Zambia
  35. 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?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classInsecta
  4. orderHemiptera
  5. familyDelphacidae
  6. genusPeregrinus
  7. 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

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of the corn delphacid

Other species in the same genus Peregrinus.

CompareCorn delphacid vs Peregrinus iocasta

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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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/corn-delphacid

MLA

“Corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/corn-delphacid.

BibTeX
@misc{corn_delphacid_2026,
  title = {Corn delphacid (Peregrinus maidis)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/corn-delphacid},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}