Phytocoris tiliae
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| Phytocoris tiliae | |
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| Phytocoris tiliae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Miridae |
| Genus: | Phytocoris |
| Species: | P. tiliae |
| Binomial name | |
| Phytocoris tiliae (Fabricius, 1777) | |
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Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.
The 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
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.