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Tinicephalus

Tinicephalus is a genus of mostly European capsid bugs in the tribe Phylini, erected by Franz Xaver Fieber in 1858. The species Tinicephalus hortulanus is recorded from northern Europe including the British Isles.

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Tinicephalus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Miridae
Subfamily: Phylinae
Tribe: Phylini
Genus: Tinicephalus
Fieber, 1858
Synonyms
  • Cephalotenes Marshall, 1868
  • Cephalotonus Marshall, 1868

Tinicephalus1 is a genus of mostly European capsid bugs in the tribe Phylini, erected by Franz Xaver Fieber in 1858. The species Tinicephalus hortulanus is recorded from northern Europe including the British Isles.2

Species

According to BioLib the following are included:3

subgenus Lavendulaephylus Wagner, 1972
  1. Tinicephalus rubiginosus Fieber, 1861
subgenus Tinicephalus Fieber, 1858
  1. Tinicephalus croceus Wagner, 1969
  2. Tinicephalus dentifer Linnavuori, 1965
  3. Tinicephalus discrepans Fieber, 1858
  4. Tinicephalus hortulanus (Meyer-Dür, 1843)
  5. Tinicephalus indistinctus Wagner, 1962
  6. Tinicephalus macciae Lindberg, 1934
  7. Tinicephalus nigropilosus Wagner, 1977
  8. Tinicephalus picticornis Wagner, 1966
  9. Tinicephalus rubropictus Wagner, 1972
  10. Tinicephalus varensis Wagner, 1964
  11. Tinicephalus vicarius Linnavuori, 1984
Unplaced taxa
  1. Tinicephalus atricornis (Wagner, 1965)
  2. Tinicephalus streitoi Matocq, 2007
References

References

  1. Fieber FX (1858) Wien. Ent. Monatschr., 2.
  2. Southwood TRE, Leston D (1959) Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles Warne.
  3. BioLib.cz: genus Tinicephalus Fieber, 1858 (retrieved 5 April 2022)
External links
  • Data related to Phylini at Wikispecies