Zygina angusta
Length 3 mm. The red zigzag pattern on the forewing rarely reaches the scutellum, and the area of clavus between the zigzag has a dark smoky tint. The scutellum is mostly brown and the hind tarsi of males have a pale basal and adjacent segment. Male sternal apodeme lobes elongate.
Zygina ordinaria is very similar and can only be reliably disinguished from Z angusta by examination of male sternal apodemes; it has poorly developed lobes. Zygina tiliae/suavis/schneideri have a pale yellowish scutellum or with red markings; male tarsi are all darkened. Zygina flammigera has a pale area of clavus within the red zigzags.
Can only be reliably identified by examination of internal abdominal structure - the apodemes - of males.
Various trees, especially oak and hawthorn, overwinters on conifers, holly and ivy and other evergreens
Adult: July to May.
Common (ref: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)
Probably frequent; but very few specimens dissected to confirm ID
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 10
- First record:
- 29/03/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 27/01/2023 (Cann, Alan)
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