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Unidentifed leafhoppers and planthoppers This page illustrates a range of apparently distinctive hopper species that have yet proven unidentifiable from our limited experience. In some cases we can recognise the genus, but not the species, and in others even the subfamily is obscure. We have not included any cases where we know it is identified  as far as possible, but microscopic studies are necessary to progress, or the critical features are not visible in the photographs.    If you have any comments or suggestions on any of these species, please contact us and let us know. Hopefully this page will gradually become shorter rather than longer...
	Adults seen in Morden Hall Park, south London, in November and December 2007. Specimens were frequent in waterside sedges in a wetland. The dark spot on the wing is consistent, but in other cases is elongated into a long dark line, and in some cases almost the entire forewing is dark brown. Length ~3 mm. ©Joe Botting
Adult found July 2007, on brambles in South London. Length 2 mm. ©Joe Botting	Adult female with eggs. Is this just a short-winged Stenocranus species, or something different? Found on willowherb,  October 2007, in south London. Length 3 mm. ©Joe Botting
Adults found in grassland in south London, October 2007. Note the mostly or entirely dark face, which is unusual for a leafhopper. Some sort of deltocephaline. 3-4 mm long. . ©Joe Botting	It's some species of Macrosteles, but there are lots to choose from. Mostly, however, they're yellowish or brown. A couple are brown-black. I can't find any referred to as blue. It looks like it should be a colour variant of M. horvathi or M. frontalis (the only really dark ones), but they're meant to be in swamps; this was in grass in south London, November 2007. ©Joe Botting
I've seen these on two occasions in central Wales (near Llandrindod)  (August 2007); in the other, the dark punctation was slightly less, with more of the brown background showing through. Seems to be associated with upland (around 1000 ft) grassland. Length 2-3 mm. ©Joe Botting	It may be difficult to progress with this one, but it was unusual in occurring on bracken. It doesn't  appear to be any of the likely candidates for this host plant, and the association may be fortuitous. Found in woodland, central Wales, July 2007. ©Joe Botting
I'd love to know what this typhlocybine is - I just can't get anywhere useful at all. Found on two occasions on nettles in Morden Hall Park, south London, in August and September 2007. Length 3-4 mm. ©Joe Botting	This one has got to be recognisable, but again I can't quite pin it down. Note the distinctive pattern on the vertex, and the dark,line down the inside of the hind tibia. Found in August 2007. Length 4 mm. ©Joe Botting
Bizarre markings on this Eupteryx species, which is either just an aberrant one or something I've not seen before. Found on mallow. Length 3 mm. ©Joe Botting	Spectacular colouring, and what should be a really distinctive patterning on the head and pronotum. Found on thistlles and grass in south London, November 2007. Length 3 mm. ©Joe Botting