Phytocoris tiliae

Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.

Phytocoris tiliae
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)
Synonyms
  • Cimex tiliae Fabricius, 1777

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. "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
  2. "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013.
  3. 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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