Lygaeoidea

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Seed bugs and allies
Lygaeus equestris, a true seed bug (Lygaeidae)
Lygaeus equestris, a true seed bug (Lygaeidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Paraneoptera
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Families

Artheneidae
Berytidae (stilt bugs)
Blissidae
Colobathristidae
Cryptorhamphidae
Cymidae
Geocoridae
Heterogastridae
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]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Grimaldi & Engel (2007)

[edit] References

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  • Grimaldi, David A. & Engel, Michael S. (2007): An Unusual, Primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma). American Museum Novitates 3611: 1-17. DOI:10.1206/0003-0082(2008)3611[1:AUPPIH]2.0.CO;2 PDF fulltext


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