Biology:Phytocoris tiliae
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Short description: Species of true bug
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| Phytocoris tiliae | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Phytocoris |
| Species: | P. tiliae
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| 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, 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]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/phytocoris_tiliae.html. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ↑ "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea. August 29, 2013. http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452056. 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.
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q10631342 entry
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