Iassus lanio
Length 6.5 to 8 mm. This is a large and conspicuous leafhopper. The relatively short and broad form of this genus is characteristic; the head is wide (equal to the width of the pronotum) and the sides of the pronotum are shorter than the eye. In I. lanio the forewings vary in colour from green to pale brown and the vertex, pronotum and scutellum are heavily dark-mottled. The vertex is rounded and appears uniformly narrow from above. Three spines at tip of hind femur.
Can be identified by external features at 5-10X magnification.
Associated with Oak.
Adult: June to October.
Widespread and common in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Gould
Narborough Bog NR
06 July 2010
green form
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
26 July 2012
red form
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
24 July 2020
Barbara Cooper
Long Clawson
29 July 2015
AJ Cann
Knighton
17 July 2020
AJ Cann
Pickworth Great Wood
24 September 2021
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 38
- First record:
- 06/07/2010 (Gould, David)
- Last record:
- 08/09/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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AJ Cann
Knighton
17 July 2020
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
01 August 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote garden1
01 August 2013
AJ Cann
Knighton
17 July 2020
Male genitals
AJ Cann
Knighton
17 July 2020
3 spines on hind femur
