Phytocoris tiliae

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Phytocoris tiliae
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Phytocoris tiliae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Phytocoris
Species:
P. tiliae
Binomial name
Phytocoris tiliae
(Fabricius, 1777)
Synonyms
  • Cimex tiliaeFabricius, 1777

Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.

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Description

The species is greyish-green coloured and is 6–7 millimetres (0.24–0.28 in) long. It have black coloured mottling on the wings with its underside being silver-grey to lime-green. [1]

Distribution

It is mainly absent from Albania, Azores, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Lithuania, Madeira, Malta, North Macedonia, and some parts of Russia. [2] then east to the Caucasus.

Ecology

Phytocoris tiliae found on deciduous trees (Tilia, Quercus, Corylus, Populus, Crataegus, Sorbus, Fagus, Malus, Acer, Fraxinus, Salix) where it feeds on mites and other small insects. [1] [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea . 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: Wanzen. Band 2: Cimicomorpha: Microphysidae (Flechtenwanzen), Miridae (Weichwanzen) (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 75. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2006, ISBN   3-931374-57-2, S. 111.


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