Pilophorini

Pilophorini is a tribe of plant bug. The type genus is Pilophorus (Hahn, 1826). Schuh's analysis indicates that the Pilophorini originated in tropical Gondwanaland and subsequently spread into the temperate Northern Hemisphere, where they differentiated into the known genera.[1]

Pilophorini
Pilophorus perplexus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Heteroptera
Family:
Miridae
Subfamily:
Phylinae
Tribe:
Pilophorini

Douglas & Scott, 1876

Genera
  • Alepidiella Poppius, 1914
  • Aloea Linnavuori, 1975
  • Druthmarus Distant, 1909
  • Hypseloecus Reuter, 1891
  • Neoambonea Schuh, 1974
  • Parambonea Schuh, 1974
  • Pilophorus Hahn, 1826
  • Spinolosus Zou, 1985
  • Sthenaridea Reuter, 1885

Notes
  1. (Schuh, 1991)

References
  • Encyclopedia of Life entry
  • Henry, Thomas J. (2010). "New Plant Bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae) Records for West Virginia". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 112 (4). pp. 490–499. doi:10.4289/0013-8797.112.4.490.
  • Menard, Katrina L.; Schuh, Randall T. & Woolley, James B. (2013). "Total-evidence phylogenetic analysis and reclassification of the Phylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae), with the recognition of new tribes and subtribes and a redefinition of Phylini". Cladistics. doi:10.1111/cla.12052.
  • Schuh, Randall T. (1991). "Phylogenetic, host and biogeographic analysis of the Pilophorini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)". Cladistics. 7 (2). pp. 157–189. doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.1991.tb00030.x.
  • Schuh, Randall T. & Menard, Katrina L. (2013). A revised classification of the Phylinae (Insecta, Heteroptera, Miridae): Arguments for the placement of genera (PDF). American Museum Novitates, no. 3785. New York: American Museum of Natural History. OCLC 861298407.
  • Yasunaga, Tomohide & Schuh, Randall T. (2013). Morphologically novel members of the ant-mimetic plant bug genus Pilophorus Hahn found in Thailand, with descriptions of three new species (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae: Pilophorini) (PDF). American Museum Novitates, No. 3768. New York: American Museum of Natural History.
  • Zou, H. G. (1983). "A new genus and three new species of Pilophorini Reuter from China (Hemiptera: Miridae)". Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 8. pp. 283–287. in Chinese with English descriptions of the new

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