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Metidiocerus rutilans
Length about 5 mm. The forewings are basally plain reddish-brown and hyaline in the apical third, with several white spots along the cubital vein. The scutellum is mainly brown with a pale apex; other small pale marks may be present and the dark triangles are often faint or absent. The thyridia are dark and the face is particularly plain and yellowish in males, which also have very small, slender antennal palettes
Can only be identified by examination of internal genital structure.
Around willows and sometimes evergreens in winter.
Adult: April to November.
Often overwintering on pines.
Locally distributed on willows, primarily in southern Britain.
Not thought to be very frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bugs
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hemiptera
- Family:
- Cicadellidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 12
- First record:
- 10/09/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 04/03/2024 (Cann, Alan)
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