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Spotted this tiny ~2mm leafhopper this afternoon with a pretty colour scheme.

Likely subgenus Neoaliturus, but a species ID would need a genital examination 🍆

The most "common" in DE (26 observations on iNat) is N fenestratus (🇩🇪 Trauerzirpe), but N guttulatus or v rare N albilacustris are possible.

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A very small leafhopper seen side on on a green leaf. The overall colour of the head, pronutum, and wings is black, but with many small and larger spots in light yellow, white, and light blue, especially towards the end of the wings. The legs are black at the top, more amber below, with many white spines. The eyes are a deep crimson red. The same leafhopper seen from above, showing the transverse yellow "wrinkles" on the pronutum, three yellow dots on the scutellum, and then a symmetric pattern of three pairs of blue-white spots down the ridge of the wings, with a window pattern of larger blue-white patches framed in black further along the wings. There are patches of blue on the wings too.

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Bonus picture of a seven-spot ladybird or C-7 (Coccinella septempunctata; 🇩🇪 Siebenpunkt).

Very decidedly not rare, but prettily posed on the ivy by the front door today, where many arthropods are feasting on the flowers.

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A ladybird seen from above and head-on walking down a fuzzy ivy stem, surrounded by backlit green ivy leaves. The ladybird has a mostly black head and pronutum with white patches, and  red wing covers with seven black spots.
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