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Pilophorus cinnamopterus

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Species of beetle

Pilophorus cinnamopterus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Miridae
Genus: Pilophorus
Species: P. cinnamopterus
Binomial name
Pilophorus cinnamopterus
(Kirschbaum, 1856)

Pilophorus cinnamopterus is a species of true bug in the Miridae family that can be found everywhere in Europe (except for Albania, Azores, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Faroe Islands, Iceland, Lithuania, Moldova, Madeira, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal and in the states of former Yugoslavia except Slovenia and Croatia). Further East across the Palearctic it is found in Asia minor and the Caspian region then to Eastern Siberia.

Description

The species is brown coloured, is 4.5 millimetres (0.18 in) long, and have silver coloured bands on forewings which are hairy as well. Unlike Pilophorus perplexus their forewings are orange-brown coloured. The species feed on aphids.

References

  1. "Pilophorus cinnamopterus (Kirschbaum, 1856)". 2.6.2. Fauna Europaea. August 29, 2013. Archived from the original on July 5, 2015. Retrieved January 17, 2014.
  2. 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.
  3. Pilophorus cinnamopterus

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Extant Coleoptera families
Suborder Archostemata
Suborder Adephaga
Extant families
Suborder Myxophaga
Suborder Polyphaga
Bostrichiformia
Bostrichoidea
Derodontoidea
Cucujiformia
Chrysomeloidea
Cleroidea
Coccinelloidea
Cucujoidea
Curculionoidea
(weevils)
Lymexyloidea
Tenebrionoidea
Elateriformia
Buprestoidea
Byrrhoidea
Dascilloidea
Elateroidea
Rhinorhipoidea
Scirtoidea
Scarabaeiformia
Scarabaeoidea
Staphyliniformia
Histeroidea
Hydrophiloidea
Staphylinoidea
List of subgroups of the order Coleoptera
Taxon identifiers
Pilophorus cinnamopterus
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