Phytocoris tiliae
| Phytocoris tiliae | |
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| Phytocoris tiliae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Phytocoris |
| Species: | P. tiliae |
| 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
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, Republic of Macedonia, and some parts of Russia.[2]
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]
References
- 1 2 "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 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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