Eupteryx filicum

Eupteryx filicum

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Description

A small leaf-hopper, 3-4mm, associated with ferns. Greenish forewings with a smoky rear part, and yellow pronotum, scutellum and head.  

Similar Species

other small yellow/green leafhoppers

Identification difficulty
Recording advice

Good quality photographs of a specimen - from side and top down

Habitat

Ferns

UK Status

Local (ref: UK Auchenorrhyncha checklist 2021)

VC55 Status

Rarely recorded - possibly overlooked

Further Information

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

  • sue
    Ketton Quarry
    16 September 2025
    on Male Fern
  • sue
    Bagworth
    27 February 2025
    on a Shield-fern
  • sue
    Ketton Quarry
    16 September 2025
    on Male Fern
  • AJ Cann
    Knighton
    20 September 2025
  • AJ Cann
    Knighton
    20 September 2025
    vertex

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