Aphrodes makarovi
Length 5.5 (males) to 7.5 mm. (females). A large leafhopper with a sharply pointed vertex with a median keel. Very variable; base colour of forewings brownish with light diagonal stripes along pale wing veins.
Other Aphrodes species
Careful examination and measurement of the species is needed; not all specimens may be identifiable
Adult: June to October.
Common (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021 on British Bugs website)
Rarely recorded due to difficulty of identification to species, but may be common
AJ Cann
Priors Coppice
30 June 2023
AJ Cann
Great Merrible
26 July 2022
aedeagus
AJ Cann
Priors Coppice
30 June 2023
aedeagus
AJ Cann
Great Merrible
26 July 2022
male
sue
Desford, Charity Fields
21 June 2025
sue
Desford, Charity Fields
21 June 2025
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 4
- First record:
- 01/07/2022 (Higgott, Mike)
- Last record:
- 21/06/2025 (Timms, Sue)
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