Lygaeoidea

Seed bugs and allies
Spilostethus pandurus (Lygaeidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Families

Artheneidae
Berytidae (stilt bugs)
Blissidae
Colobathristidae
Cryptorhamphidae
Cymidae
Geocoridae
Henicocoridae
Heterogastridae
Idiostolidae
Lygaeidae (true seed bugs)
Malcidae
Ninidae
Oxycarenidae
Pachygronthidae
Rhyparochromidae (atypical seed bugs)
and see text

The Lygaeoidea are a sizeable superfamily of true bugs, containing the seed bugs and allies. The ash-gray leaf bug family (Piesmatidae), usually placed herein, might be closer to the Aradoidea.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ David A. Grimaldi & Michael S. Engel (2007). "An unusual, primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma)" (PDF). American Museum Novitates. 3611: 1–17. doi:10.1206/0003-0082(2008)3611[1:AUPPIH]2.0.CO;2.
  2. ↑ Martin, Time. "True bugs (Order: Hemiptera) - Amateur Entomologists". Entomological Organizations by Continent. Retrieved 21 September 2014.


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