Length 5mm. Pale yellow with dark brown wing veins and a very dark inner margin to the clavus. The facial markings variable but the two lower dark marks often resemble arrowheads. Markings on the pronotum are also variable.

Good quality photographs taken from top, side and front. 

On nettles.

Adult: June to October

Normally found on nettles, it is the only species in the genus using this host plant.

Common. (ref.: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021, on British Bugs website)

Occasional.

https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/homoptera/Cicadellidae/Macropsis_scutellata.html