#4183 · 🦗 bugs, crickets & other insects
Red-banded Leafhopper
Graphocephala coccinea
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what is it?
Graphocephala coccinea is a meadow and woodland-dwelling species of brightly colored leafhopper native to North and Central America, from Canada south to Panama. Common names include candy-striped leafhopper , red-banded leafhopper , scarlet-and-green leafhopper and red-and-blue leafhopper .
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 29,965 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Reinhold Forster in 1771 (255 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Red-banded Leafhopper
- scientific name
- Graphocephala coccinea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hemiptera
- family
- Cicadellidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 29,965
- GBIF records in NL
- 1
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1771 by Johann Reinhold Forster
relatives· Cicadellidae
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Graphocephala fennahi
👀 316 in NL
#3978 📷 9Green Leafhopper
🇳🇱 Groene rietcicade
Cicadella viridis
👀 260 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
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56925, Wikidata Q2275862, GBIF 9693162, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.