Limotettix striola

Length 3.5 to 5.0 mm.  A greenish-yellow leafhopper associated with Spike-rush and other sedges.  There is a dark band across the vertex between the eyes with a pale stripe in front, and dark markings on the face.

Limotettix atricapillus also has a pale stripe on the vertex but it is much shorter; it is nationally rare and has not been recorded in VC55 

Good field photos or photos of a specimen, showing vertex 

Marshy habitats (both freshwater and saltmarshes) and associated with sedges such as spike-rush.

June to September.

Local (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)

Rarely recorded in Leicestershire and Rutland, but may be freuqent is suitable habitats with Spike-rush, etc.

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