Pilophorini

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Cimicomorpha
Superfamilia: Miroidea

Familia:Miridae
Subfamilia: Phylinae
Tribus: Pilophorini
Genera (14): Alepidiella – Aloea – Druthmarus – Ethatractus – Hypseloecus – Neoambonea – Parambonea – Parasthenaridea – Pherolepis – Pilophorus – Pseudambonea – Randallophorus – Spinolosus – Sthenaridea
Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on On-line Systematic Catalog of Plant Bugs (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae)
Name

Pilophorini Carvalho, 1958
References

Duwal, R.K.; Lee, S. 2014: A taxonomic review of the plant bug tribe Pilophorini (Hemiptera: Miridae: Phylinae) from the Korean Peninsula. Journal of Asia-Pacific entomology, DOI: 10.1016/j.aspen.2014.01.003 Reference page.

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]
Genera

Tribe Pilophorini Douglas & Scott, 1876[2][3]

Genus Alepidiella Poppius, 1914 - Eastern Nearctic
Genus Aloea Linnavuori, 1975 - Africa, Middle East
Genus Dilatops Weirauch, 2006 - Australia, Oceania
Genus Druthmarus Distant, 1909 - Orient
Genus Ethatractus Linnavuori, 1975 - Africa
Genus Hypseloecus Reuter, 1891 - Paleotropics, Australia
Genus Lasiolabops Poppius, 1914 - Paleotropics
Genus Neoambonea Schuh, 1974 - Africa
Genus Parambonea Schuh, 1974 - Africa
Genus Parasthenaridea Miller, 1937 - Orient
Genus Pherolepis Kulik, 1968 - Eastern Palearctic
Genus Pilophorus Hahn, 1826 - Holarctic, Orient
Genus Pseudambonea Schuh, 1974 - Africa
Genus Randallophorus Henry, 2013 - Neotropics
Genus Spinolosus Zou, 1985 - Orient
Genus Sthenaridea Reuter, 1885 - Circumtropical

Notes

(Schuh, 1991)
Schuh, Randall T.; Menard, Katrina L. (2013). "A Revised Classification of the Phylinae (Insecta: Heteroptera: Miridae): Arguments for the Placement of Genera". American Museum Novitates (3785): 1–72. doi:10.1206/3785.2. hdl:2246/6451. S2CID 85911892.

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. 30 (4): 391–427. doi:10.1111/cla.12052. PMID 34788969.

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): 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. 30 (4): 391–427. doi:10.1111/cla.12052.
Schuh, Randall T. (1991). "Phylogenetic, host and biogeographic analysis of the Pilophorini (Heteroptera: Miridae: Phylinae)". Cladistics. 7 (2): 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. Vol. 8. pp. 283–287. in Chinese with English descriptions of the new taxa