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Classification Homoptera Family: Cicadellidae

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AKA

Length 6.5 -8 mm

Phenology Adult: June - September

Identification

• A large straw-coloured species which is distinctive
• dark line parallel to the front of the vertex, contines across the eyes.
• Other morphological features assisting ID - Narrow longitudinal line along the scutellum and bottom half of the pronotum, with intermittent lateral lines parallel to it
• Corio-claval suture is narrowly darkened.

ie The commissure and claval suture are brown, while there is a broad, dark transverse stripe forming a shallow arc that joins the two eyes.

Life Cycle

Habitat Found in various grassland habitats , originally in SE Coastal areas but spreading accross central and inland England

By Mick E. Talbot [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

 

By Mick E. Talbot (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons