Edwardsiana rosae

Length 3-4mm. Pale or yellowish but variable in colour without strong markings. Perhaps the most difficult of all leafhopper genera, with 21 UK species, of which only two are easily identified; the other 19 cannot be identified based on external features alone.

male

Dissection and photos of male aedeagus required. 

On Rosaceae, the only Edwardsiana species to occur commonly on roses.

Summer-Autumn.

Common (ref: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)

Rarely recorded due to identification difficulty.