| Originally of American origin, this very
attractively marked Leafhopper has been in the UK since
the early 1900's, but its distribution has always been
across much of the southern-half of the UK. In 2012 we
found it within minutes of starting to look for it at
Carr Bank Park in Mansfield in October. The first
Nottinghamshire record was from Wollaton Park on 10/09/89 (Fox, D.G. and Fox, H.L.) followed by numerous records from
Clumber Park (Binding,
A. and Binding, A.E.)
and Newstead Abbey on 08/09/12 (Tobin, S.) so it is certainly
fairly widespread by now. This is a large species, with
adults measuring around 1cm in length. |
