Pilophorus (bug)

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Pilophorus
Pilophorus perplexus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Tribe: Pilophorini
Genus: Pilophorus
Hahn, 1826

Pilophorus is a genus of plant bug. It is the type genus for the Pilophorini tribe.[1]

Species[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Kerzhner I. M.; Josifov M. (1999). "Family Miridae". In Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region. Vol. 3, Cimicomorpha II. Amsterdam: Netherlands Entomological Society. pp. 1–577, pages 280–284. ISBN 978-90-71912-19-1.
  2. ^ a b c Yasunaga, Tomohide & Schuh, Randall T. (2013). Morphologically novel members of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus Hahn found in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini) (PDF). American Museum Novitates, No. 3768. New York: American Museum of Natural History.

References[edit]

  • Encyclopedia of Life entry
  • Yasunaga, Tomohide (2001). "Genus Pilophorus Hahn, 1826". In Yasunaga, Tomohide; Takai, Mikio; Kawasawa, Tetsuo (eds.). A Field Guide to Japanese Bugs II: Terrestrial Heteropterians. Tokyo. Japan: Zenkoku Noson Kyoiku Kyokai. pp. 148–151. ISBN 978-4-88137-089-6.