Streptanus aemulans
Length 4.5 - 6mm. A very variable brown species with paler wing veins. It is usually short-winged and often has dark longitudinal stripes on the abdomen beyond the wing-tips - but this is not always present. Dissection of male to examine internal genitalia - the aedeagus - will confirm identification.
Other Streptanus species, and other Deltocephaline leafhoppers
Good photographs from side, top and face; best identified by examination of internal genital structure of males.
Grassland
July to October.
Common. (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021 on British Bugs website)
Rarely recorded
AJ Cann
The Seek
02 August 2020
David Gould
fields near Fosse Park
10 November 2018
AJ Cann
The Seek
02 August 2020
aedeagus
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 10/11/2018 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 10/07/2025 (Cann, Alan)
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