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Linnavuoriana sexmaculata
Family: Cicadellidae

This species is similar to L. decempunctata but is greenish in colour and has four spots on the pronotum (occasionally two) rather than six. The two spots on the vertex are also smaller.

The extent of the dark patches on the forewings is variable, and in some cases the middle patches are fused into a transverse band.

Found primarily on sallows across the UK, moving to yew and other evergreens in the winter.

Adult: All year
Length 3.5 mm
 Linnavuoriana sexmaculata
Adult: north London (February 2008) ©Tristan Bantock
Linnavuoriana sexmaculata Linnavuoriana sexmaculata
Adult: Cheshire (October 2009) ©Steve Tomlinson
 		Adult: north London (February 2008) ©Tristan Bantock
Linnavuoriana sexmaculata Linnavuoriana sexmaculata
Adult: Dorset (August 2009) ©Mark Dunkling

 Adult: south London (November 2007) ©Joe Botting