Pilophorus cinnamopterus

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Pilophorus cinnamopterus
Pilophorus cinnamopterus (Miridae) - (imago), Molenhoek, the Netherlands.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Pilophorus
Species:
P. cinnamopterus
Binomial name
Pilophorus cinnamopterus
(Kirschbaum, 1856)

Pilophorus cinnamopterus is a species of true bug in the Miridae family that can be found everywhere in Europe (except for Albania, Azores, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Lithuania, Moldova, Madeira, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal and in the states of former Yugoslavia except Slovenia and Croatia). [1] Further East across the Palearctic it is found in Asia minor and the Caspian region then to Eastern Siberia. [2]

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Description

The species is brown coloured, is 4.5 millimetres (0.18 in) long, and have silver coloured bands on forewings which are hairy as well. Unlike Pilophorus perplexus their forewings are orange-brown coloured. The species feed on aphids. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Pilophorus cinnamopterus (Kirschbaum, 1856)". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Pilophorus cinnamopterus
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