Empoasca vitis
Length 3.0 to 4 mm. A small, slender green leafhopper, with hyaline (clear and transparent) stripes in forewing. There are whitish marks on the vertex and pronotum.
Empoasca decipens lacks the hyaline stripes on forewings. There are several other related genera with green hoppers which can be separated by wing venation and vertex shape
Good quality photographs from side and top down - the hyaline stripes can be difficult to see in certain lights so make sure your photo shows them
Usually found on deciduous trees in summer and evergreens in winter.
Adult: All year.
Common (ref: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)
Common
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
08 April 2023
AJ Cann
Knighton
10 January 2023
AJ Cann
Shady Lane Arboretum
02 January 2023
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
16 April 2019
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
21 May 2019
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 75
- First record:
- 25/10/2008 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 19/01/2026 (Pugh, Dylan)
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David Nicholls
Narborough Bog
02 May 2011
AJ Cann
Lucas' Marsh
13 April 2017
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
16 April 2022
AJ Cann
Warren Hills
26 November 2020
Mike Higgott
Anstey garden
28 March 2022
Mark Skevington
Huncote Embankment
13 February 2020
David Gould
Leicester Garden
04 October 2009
David Gould
Braunstone
25 October 2008
