Acericerus heydenii (Kirschbaum, 1868)
This attractive and fairly distinct leafhopper is associated with Sycamore and was found new to Nottinghamshire by Tim Sexton at the NWT's Attenborough Nature Reserve in January 2019. Only discovered in the UK for the first time as recently as 2010, there are several similar species to make identification less straight forward.
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Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Acericerus heydenii
 
 
 
 
The records for the Nottinghamshire distribution map are currently provided by the following contributors - Tim Sexton. Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. David Shaw. Trevor and Dilys Pendleton.

You can contribute your own records to help us gain an accurate status of this species in Nottinghamshire. Send an Excel spreadsheet of your records via the 'contact us' link at the top of the homepage.

Updated January 2024
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