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Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
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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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| Binomial name | |
| Phytocoris tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)
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Description
editThe species is greyish-green coloured and is 6–7 millimetres (0.24–0.28 in) long. It has black coloured mottling on the wings with its underside being silver-grey to lime-green.[1]
Distribution
editIt 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
editPhytocoris 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
edit- ^ a b "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ^ "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on October 14, 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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