Phytocoris tiliae
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Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
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, Republic of Macedonia, and some parts of Russia.[2]
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
- ^ a b "Phytocoris tiliae". British Bugs. Retrieved June 23, 2013.
- ^ "Phytocoris (Phytocoris) tiliae (Fabricius, 1777)". Fauna Europaea. 2.6.2. August 29, 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.