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Classification Homoptera Family: Cicadellidae

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AKA

Length 4.0 - 5.0 mm

Phenology Adult: August - November

Identification

• Wings have a base colour of plain pea green
• Can have markings of two kinds , marked with pale areas; or sometimes they are scattered with black dots.
• Vertex is rounded evenlyand slightly longer in the centre than it is by the length of eyes.
• Host plant tamarisk

Life Cycle

Habitat This pea-green leafhopper which is found on tamarisk, often in number Distributed accross southern Britain on tamarisk, both coastal and on cultivated forms of the plant inland.