Phytocoris, Fallen, 1814

Zamani, Mozhgan & Hosseini, Reza, 2022, A phylogenetic study of the relationships within Mirinae subfamily (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae) based on specimens from Northern Iran: Insight into analyses of genera complexes, Zootaxa 5200 (2), pp. 101-127 : 105

Phytocoris genus

( Fig. 2 , node 13).

The genus comprises 275 species known from the Palearctic region, which about 62 species have been reported and documented from Iran ( Hosseini & Mohammadi 2018, 2019; Zamani & Hosseini 2019; Aukema 2020). Phytocoris is recovered as a monophyletic group in both analyses, by 70% resampling support. This result is congruent with Kim & Jung’s phylogenetic analyses based on total evidence ( Kim & Jung 2019). Morphological characters supporting this clade include: antenna longer than body (16-1) and hind femora narrowed towards apex (48-2).

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FIGURE. 2. Most parsimonious tree obtained from the analysis using implied weights, K= 8. Node numbers correspond to nodes in the results section. Filled circles represent non-homoplasious characters, and open circles represent homoplasious characters.