Doratura stylata

Length 3 to 4.5 mm.  A distinctive leafhopper with short wings that have greenish metallic highlights.  There are three large black spots at the tip of the vertex.  Females have long projecting gonoplacs (part of the ovipositor).  The nymph is brownish with pale foreparts and a curved pale band across the abdomen.

Good quality field photos or photos of a specimen, showing short wings and black spots on vertex, or of nymph

Found in open grassy areas, often but not always in sandy or calcareous situations.

Adult: June to October.

Widespread in England, and also recorded in southern Scotland.  Common (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021 on British Bugs website)

Occasional

https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/homoptera/Cicadellidae/Doratura_stylata.html