# Phytocoris longipennis

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{{Short description|Species of true bug}}
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| image = Phytocoris longipennis 217623120.jpg
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| genus = Phytocoris
| species = longipennis
| authority = Flor, 1861
}}

'''''Phytocoris longipennis''''' is a species of plant bugs belonging to the family [Miridae](/source/Miridae) and subfamily [Mirinae](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Fauna_Europaea)|version=2.6.2|date=August 29, 2013|accessdate=October 13, 2013}}</ref> and then East across the [Palearctic](/source/Palearctic) to [Central Asia](/source/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](/source/deciduous) trees where it feeds on [mite](/source/mite)s and other small insects. Flight time is from June to October.<ref name=britishbugs/>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=365857 ''Phytocoris longipennis'' images] at  [Consortium for the Barcode of Life](/source/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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