Species Phytocoris tiliae

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Plant Bug (Phytocoris) - Phytocoris tiliae

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Superfamily Miroidea

Family Miridae (Plant Bugs)

Subfamily Mirinae

Tribe Mirini

Genus Phytocoris

Species tiliae (Phytocoris tiliae)

Explanation of Names

Phytocoris tiliae (Fabricius 1776)

Size

5.5-6.6 mm(1)

Identification

Recognized by the greenish yellow or pale grayish yellow pronotal disk with the lateral margins broadly fuscous; first antennal segment without pale longitudinal stripes; and male genitalia with shaft of left paramere broadly rounded apically and broad right paramere. (1)

Range

adventive in NA (NY-NS and BC-OR) - Map (2)(1)(3), native to w. Palaearctic (Europe and much of n. Africa)

Food

In NA, adults collected on Alnus, Corylus, Pyrus, Salix, and Tilia(1)

Remarks

earliest NA record: BC 1921(4)

Internet References

Images of live and pinned adults from Denmark and the UK(5)

Works Cited

1.	Revision of the mirine genus Phytocoris Fallén (Heteroptera, Miridae) for western North America Stonedahl, Gary M. 1988. American Museum of Natural History.

2.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

5.	Bantock T., Botting J. (2010‒) British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera

Contributed by WonGun Kim on 23 August, 2009 - 9:39pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 April, 2023 - 2:23pm

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