Lamprotettix nitidulus
Length 5 to 6 mm. A fairly large and strongly marked brown and yellowish leafhopper, with two dark triangles and two central dots on the scutellum - forming a distinctive "sad frog' pattern.
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Usually found on trees.
Adult: July to November.
Local (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)
Occasoinal
David Gould
Braunstone, Wood Close Plantation
08 September 2021
AJ Cann
Knighton
25 July 2020
AJ Cann
Knighton
25 July 2020
egaten
Thurlaston garden
22 August 2019
egaten
Thurlaston garden
22 August 2019
glfmaf14
Shenton
11 September 2024
aedeagus
sue
Holwell LRWT Reserve, Brown's Hill quarry
05 September 2025
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 23
- First record:
- 19/10/2016 (Higgott, Mike)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2025 (Pochin, Christine)
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sue
Glenfield, former Hospital sports field
10 October 2019
sue
Bagworth
25 August 2019
sue
Holwell LRWT Reserve, Brown's Hill quarry
05 September 2025
