Kingdom Animalia Family Miridae Genus Pilophorus Order True bugs | Class Insecta Phylum Arthropoda Rank Species | |
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Similar Pilophorus perplexus, Pilophorus, True bugs, Orthops kalmii, Amblytylus nasutus | ||
Pilophorus cinnamopterus is a species of beetle 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). Further East across the Palearctic it is found in Asia minor and the Caspian region then to Eastern Siberia.
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.
References
Pilophorus cinnamopterus Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA