Phytocoris tiliae


Phytocoris tiliae is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae, subfamily Mirinae.

Description

The species is greyish-green coloured and is long. It have black coloured mottling on the wings with its underside being silver-grey to lime-green.

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. then east to the Caucasus.

Ecology

Phytocoris tiliae found on deciduous trees where it feeds on mites and other small insects.