Pilophorus (bug)

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Pilophorus
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Pilophorus perplexus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Tribe: Pilophorini
Genus: Pilophorus
Hahn, 1826

Pilophorus is a genus of plant bug. It is the type genus for the Pilophorini tribe. [1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Kerzhner I. M.; Josifov M. (1999). "Family Miridae". In Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3, Cimicomorpha II. Amsterdam: Netherlands Entomological Society. pp. 1–577, pages 280–284. ISBN   978-90-71912-19-1.
  2. 1 2 3 Yasunaga, Tomohide & Schuh, Randall T. (2013). Morphologically novel members of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus Hahn found in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini) (PDF). American Museum Novitates, No. 3768. New York: American Museum of Natural History.

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