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Leafhoppers have piercing-sucking mouthparts, enabling them to feed on plant sap. A leafhoppers' diet commonly consists of sap from a wide and diverse range of plants, but some are more host-specific. Leafhoppers mainly are herbivores, but some are known to eat smaller insects, such as aphids, on occasion.
A planthopper is any insect in the infraorder Fulgoromorpha, [1] in the suborder Auchenorrhyncha, [2] a group exceeding 12,500 described species worldwide. The name comes from their remarkable resemblance to leaves and other plants of their environment and that they often "hop" for quick transportation in a similar way to that of grasshoppers .
These include cicadas, leafhoppers, treehoppers, planthoppers, froghoppers, aphids, whiteflies, scale insects, and some other groups. Some are monophages , being host specific and only found on one plant taxon, others are oligophages , feeding on a few plant groups, while others again are less discriminating polyphages and feed on many species ...
A study from 2005 has analysed the DNA of 53 planthopper species (including 5 derbids) from 15 families. It confirmed the close relationship between the Derbidae and the Achilidae and also revealed a close relationship between the Derbidae and the Tropiduchidae. [21] As of 2024, 1722 species of Derbidae in 166 genera have been described world ...
Peregrinus maidis, commonly known as the corn planthopper, is a species of insect in the order Hemiptera and the family Delphacidae. [2] It is widespread throughout most tropical and subtropical regions on earth, including southern North America , South America , Africa , Australia , Southeast Asia and China . [ 2 ]
Many species of froghopper resemble leafhoppers, but can be distinguished by the possession of only a few stout spines on the hind tibiae, where leafhoppers have a series of small spines. Members of the family Machaerotidae greatly resemble treehoppers , due to a large thoracic spine, but the spine in machaerotids is an enlargement of the ...
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 crop for about half the world's population. [ 1 ]
The nymphs have been found in decaying tree trunks, where they presumably feed on fungi. [18] Very few authors have reported from which plants the specimens were collected from. Some species seem to be common on coconut and other palms, where they are sometimes suspected to be disease vectors.