Cicadella viridis
Cicadella viridis, sometimes called the "green leafhopper", is a species of European leafhoppers belonging to the subfamily Cicadellinae.

Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CicadellaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 15.98 Mya and 11.63 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Cicadella viridis on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
1 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Cicadella viridis and its relatives
MioceneWhere Cicadella viridis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Aphrophora stavropolitana1 site
- Cacopsylla abieti1 site
- Chrysopa martynovae1 site
- Chrysopa miocenea1 site
- Cyamophila longifurca1 site
- Dictyophara1 site
- Dictyophara vishneviensis1 site
- Eupteryx1 site
- Halesus miocenicus1 site
- Lasius vetulus1 site
- Limnephilus parakaspievi1 site
- Noctuites caucasicus1 site
- Noctuites kaspievi1 site
- Noctuites kozhantshikovi1 site
- Potamophylax martynovorum1 site
- Psylla1 site
- Trioza interposita1 site
- Trioza similis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cicadella viridis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Cicadella viridis
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Cicadella viridis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCicadella through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Linnaeus 1758)