Neides

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Berytidae
Subfamily: Berytinae
Genus: Neides
Fabricius, 1802
Species
  • Neides aduncus Fieber
  • Neides gomeranus Heiss
  • Neides tipularius (Linnaeus)

The genus Neides is a small but common Old World group of stilt bugs; the name has precedence of the junior synonym name Berytus which Fabricius coined for the same taxon in 1803. It formerly includes one North American species, which has been removed to its own genus, Neoneides.