- Dr Alvin Helden of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge has found the leafhopper on a student field trip to Kibale National Park, in west Uganda.
- Dr Alvin named the metallic-sheened insect Phlogis kibalensis.
- It is from an “incredibly rare” group of leafhoppers, whose “biology remains almost completely unknown”.
- The last recorded sighting of a leafhopper from the Phlogis genus was in the Central African Republic in 1969.
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