Mocydia crocea
A small leafhopper with a striped appearance. Forewings noticeably pointed compared to other leafhoppers; light brown with paler veins, and often with a dark mark in the apical cell. Careful examination of the venation in the wing apex wll confirm identification.
Mocydiopsis species
good quality photographs - from top, and in side-view ensuring venation at the wing-tip is clear
grassland
Adult: all year round.
Common. (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021 on British Bugs website)
Fairly frequent
Mark Skevington
Ketton Quarry
10 June 2012
sue
Holwell LRWT Reserve, Brown's Hill quarry
05 September 2025
AJ Cann
John O Gaunt
24 August 2020
AJ Cann
The Seek
02 August 2020
nymph
Paul Ruddoch
Melton Mowbray Country Park
30 August 2014
AJ Cann
John O Gaunt
24 August 2020
aedeagus
AJ Cann
Attenborough Arboretum
19 March 2020
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 36
- First record:
- 10/06/2012 (Skevington, Mark)
- Last record:
- 03/02/2026 (Cann, Alan)
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AJ Cann
Attenborough Arboretum
19 March 2020
sue
Newtown Linford, Rough Hill
10 August 2023
AJ Cann
Ketton Quarry NR
16 September 2025
aedeagus
