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Green leafhopper

Cicadella viridis

3,954Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
106Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May18
Jun170
Jul1,718
Aug1,349
Sep318
Oct78
Nov6
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England288
2Devon England150
3Cumbria England148
4North Yorkshire England133
5Argyll and Bute Scotland130
6Highland Scotland126
7Cambridgeshire England124
8Norfolk England121
9Cheshire East England113
10Isle of Anglesey Wales96
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland94
12Powys Wales47
13Kent England43
14Carmarthenshire Wales42
15Cornwall England41
2,691 England664 Scotland407 Wales82 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 106 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,954
Peak month
July
Counties with records
106
Scientific name
Cicadella viridis
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,468
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Cicadellidae
Genus
Cicadella
Name with authority
Cicadella viridis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q838596 · GBIF 6260393