Abstract Arboviruses can be paternally transmitted by male insects to offspring for long-term persistence. but the mechanism remains largely unknown. Here. we use a model system of a destructive rice reovirus and its leafhopper vector to find that insect ribosome-rescuer Pelo-Hbs1 complex expressed on the sperm surface mediates paternal arbovirus transmission. https://www.nacrack.com/quick-grab-Chainsaw-File-super-grab/