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Edwardsiana rosae
Family: Cicadellidae

Perhaps the most difficult of all leafhopper genera, with 21 UK species, of which only two are easily identified; the other 19 cannot be identified based on external features alone.


E. rosae
is pale yellow or whitish, and is the only  Edwardsiana species to occur commonly on roses.

Found across England and Wales as far north as Yorkshire, on a wide range of plants including rose, apple, hawthorn, oak, strawberry and hazel.

Adult: June to October
Length 3.5-4 mm
Edwardsiana rosae
Adult: Huddersfield (June 2008) ©Joe Botting

Edwardsiana rosae nymph
Adult with aedaegus: north London (October 2009) ©Tristan Bantock

Nymph: north London (October 2009) ©Tristan Bantock