Pilophorini | |
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Pilophorus perplexus | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Miridae |
Subfamily: | Phylinae |
Tribe: | Pilophorini Douglas & Scott, 1876 |
Pilophorini is a tribe of plant bugs. 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]