Edwardsiana geometrica
Length around 4 mm. Perhaps the most difficult of all leafhopper genera, with 21 UK species, of which only two are easily identified; the other 19 cannot be identified based on external features alone. E. geometrica is one of the few that can be distinguished without microscopy. A very strikingly-marked species, and the dark stripe along the corial-claval suture is diagnostic. The ground colour varies from whitish to yellow.
May be found on Alder.
Adult: June-October.
Widespread in Britain, but not normally common. Perhaps absent from the extreme north.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
sue
Bagworth
05 August 2018
Mark Skevington
Whetstone Garden
16 July 2021
Peter Smith
Loughborough, Bramcote Road
26 October 2020
sue
Sence Valley Forest Park, Horseshoe Lake, S bank
02 August 2024
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 05/08/2018 (Timms, Sue)
- Last record:
- 02/08/2024 (Timms, Sue)
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