{{Short description|Species of true bug}} {{Speciesbox | image = Phytocoris longipennis 217623120.jpg | image_caption = | genus = Phytocoris | species = longipennis | authority = Flor, 1861 }}
'''''Phytocoris longipennis''''' is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family Miridae and subfamily Mirinae.
==Description== The species have black coloured pronotum with brownish or black upperside. It is {{convert|7|mm}} long.<ref name=britishbugs>{{cite web|url= http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Miridae/phytocoris_longipennis.html|title=''Phytocoris longipennis''|publisher=British Bugs|accessdate=June 23, 2013}}</ref>
==Distribution== It is found in most parts of Europe.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452046|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131014173020/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=452046|url-status= dead|archive-date= October 14, 2013|title=''Phytocoris (Phytocoris) longipennis Flor, 1861''|publisher=Fauna Europaea|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|accessdate=October 13, 2013}}</ref> and then East across the Palearctic to Central Asia<ref>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.</ref>
==Ecology== ''Phytocoris longipennis'' is found on deciduous trees where it feeds on mites and other small insects. Flight time is from June to October.<ref name=britishbugs/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=365857 ''Phytocoris longipennis'' images] at Consortium for the Barcode of Life *[http://bugguide.net/node/view/324226 ''Phytocoris tiliae'']
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Category:Insects described in 1861 Category:Hemiptera of Europe longipennis
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