Dikraneura variata
Length 3 mm. The eye shape is significantly longer than high and a line joining the rear points of the eyes would meet around half-way across the pronotum. There is a slightly swollen base to the final (long) antennal segment. Usually greenish, with a pale steak down the vertex, but a brown-red form is occasional, especially in overwintering individuals.
other yellowish/greenish leaf hoppers
Photograph from side and from top down to show eye position.
Heaths and other grassy places.
Adult: February to October, but sometimes overwintering.
Common (ref: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)
Rarely recorded
Mark Skevington
Charnwood Lodge
01 March 2020
Mark Skevington
Charnwood Lodge
01 March 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 01/03/2020 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 01/03/2020 (Skevington, Mark)
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