#3978 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Green Leafhopper
🇳🇱 Groene rietcicade ·Cicadella viridis
🦗 Bugs, crickets & other insects 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Sarah Gregg · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © brunoparisotto · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Nicolas Zwahlen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Paul B. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cicadella viridis , the 'Green Leafhoppers', is a species of belonging to the family Cicadellidae subfamily Cicadellinae.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 260 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #37 most seen of the bugs, crickets & other insects in NL.
- 15,369 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Green Leafhopper
- Nederlands
- Groene rietcicade
- scientific name
- Cicadella viridis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadellidae
- sightings in NL
- 260
- sightings in Europe
- 10,438
- sightings worldwide
- 15,369
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,346
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cicadellidae
#3970 📷 8Rhododendron Leafhopper
🇳🇱 Rododendroncicade
Graphocephala fennahi
👀 316 in NL
#4008 📷 10Ligurian Leafhopper
Eupteryx decemnotata
👀 124 in NL
#4029 📷 10Eupteryx tenella
Eupteryx tenella
👀 87 in NL
#4052 📷 10Horned Leafhopper
🇳🇱 Oorcicade
Ledra aurita
👀 62 in NL
#4088 📷 10Japanese Leafhopper
🇳🇱 Oosterse mozaïekdwergcicade
Orientus ishidae
👀 31 in NL
#4183 📷 7Red-banded Leafhopper
Graphocephala coccinea
🌍 30k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 52447, Wikidata Q838596, GBIF 6260393, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.