Kingdom Animalia Order Hemiptera Genus Phytocoris Higher classification Phytocoris | Phylum Arthropoda Family Miridae Scientific name Phytocoris tiliae Rank Species | |
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Similar Phytocoris, Phytocoris varipes, Phytocoris ulmi, Orthops campestris, Pantilius tunicatus | ||
Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
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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.
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.
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.
References
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