Phytocoris tiliae
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Phytocoris tiliae | |
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Phytocoris tiliae | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Miridae |
Genus: | Phytocoris |
Species: | P. tiliae
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Binomial name | |
Phytocoris tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)
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Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
Description
[edit]The species is greyish-green coloured and is 6–7 millimetres (0.24–0.28 in) long. It has black coloured mottling on the wings with its underside being silver-grey to lime-green.[1]
Distribution
[edit]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
[edit]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]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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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