IPhone showing up as connected to my iTunes on my Mac when it is not

Hi -
All of the sudden this week, I have gone into my iTunes and it has shown that my phone is connected to my iMac when it is not. I always eject my devices before unplugging them. If I want to sync, I have to eject the phantom device before I can start the sync. My sync settings for the iPhone are 1) Automatically sync when connected and sync this phone over wifi. Has anyone seen this before?

SOLUTION! 
I've been suffering from this problem for a few months.  I tried everything suggested by everyone, and then, today, I had a mad idea. 
I used to work in a room in the house that's about 12 metres away from the router. It's on the next storey up and horizontally about 8 metres away.  The problem started when I began to work in the same room as the router. 
Today I became so frustrated that for some reason I walked into a room about 8 metres away on the same level - Guess what?  I connected with no problem at all. Feeling full of joy I walked back to the room where the router is located - Dropped internet connection within a few minutes!  Walked back to the the room that's 8 metres away and, hey presto! I have a connection. I now realise that the problem was that I moved too close to the router.
I can think of no logical explanation for my experience, but empirically it seems to work.  Does anyone have the faintest idea of why this should be the case?  In the absence of an answer I think I may have to start believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden - I'm just off to set a meal for them.
By the way, I don't know if it has any significance, but the router is a BT Infinity router that has replaced the incredibly unreliable Virgin Media cable connection

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