Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus (IHHNV) is a kind of common virus in shrimp culture industry in China, influencing prawn breeding all over the world. IHHNV is harmful to Litopenaeus stylirostris and the mortality can be as high as 90%. For Litopenaeus vannamei, the mortality is not high, but can suffer from runt deformity syndrome (RDS). IHHNV infection in Penaeus monodon is usually subclinical, but RDS, reduced growth rates and reduced culture performance have been reported in IHHNV-infected stocks. OIE recommended 5 sets of primer pairs to detect different genotypes of IHHNV. In order to know the detecting types in China, we used four sets of primer pairs in the PCR protocols recommended by the OIE standards to detect penaeid shrimp samples collected in 2011 and 2012 from different provinces. These four sets of primer pairs are 389F/389R, 392F/392R, 77012F/77353R, 309F/309R, respectively. The detection results showed that IHHNV positives were detected in the samples of L. vannamei, P. monodon, Fenneropenaeus chinensis and Melicertus latisulcatus, but not in the sample of Palaemon carincauda. The positive percentage of L. vannamei was the highest, 70.8% (389F/R) in 2011 and 34.3% (389F/R) in 2012, and that of F. chinensis was the lowest, which is 8.3%. The more positive of penaeid shrimp samples in 2011 were detected than that in 2012. The positive percentage of IHHNV in penaeid shrimp samples from East China is higher than that from North China and South China. We got four detecting types from the PCR detection with 4 sets of primer pairs recommended by the OIE standards. For detected typeⅠ, the positive rate is 90% for all the four primer sets. For detected typeⅡ, the positive rate is 4% for primer set 389F/R. For detected type Ⅲ, the positive rate is 4% for primer sets of 389F/389R, 392F/392R and 309F/309R. For detected type Ⅳ, the positive rate is 2% for primer sets of 389F/389R and 309F/309R. The survey provided valuable information for the future study and surveillance on epidemiology of IHHNV.