Metidiocerus elegans (Flor, 1861)

Lock, Koen, 2011, Fifty leafhoppers new to Belgium (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 88, pp. 1-28 : 1-28

Metidiocerus elegans (Flor, 1861)

The forewings are reddish brown with dark veins, the apex is light greyish brown, in the middle there is a light bar with white veins (Fig. 40). Males have a brown longitudinal stripe on the frons and the clypeus. In cool and wet habitats on Salix caprea L., S. cinerea L. and S. aurita L. III-X. The species was marked as expected by COUBEAUX (1892a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Kinrooi, Vijverbroek (51.162, 5.833), 2.VI.2018.

Mocuellus (Erzaleus) metrius (Flor, 1861)

This is a straw-coloured species that resembles many other Deltocephalinae . The aedeagus has a pair of forked appendages (Fig. 41). The seventh abdominal sternite of the female has rounded hind corners and two small incisions in the hind margin. In moist meadows and mires and on watersides of lakes and rivers on Phalaris arundinacea L. VI-X. The species was marked as expected by COUBEAUX (1892a).

MATERIAL EXAMINED: Zichem, Demerbroeken (51.010, 4.979), 26.VIII.2017; Villers-sur-Lesse, Outre Lesse (50.151, 5.128), 16.IX.2018.