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Wikipedia / Cimicomorpha

The Cimicomorpha are an infraorder of insects in the order Hemiptera, the true bugs. The rostrum and other morphology of some members apparently is adapted to feeding on animals as their prey or hostss. Members include bed bugs, bat bugs, assassin bugs, and pirate bugs.

The two infraorders Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha have very similar characteristics, possibly as a result of the evolution of plant feeding. The key similarity that unites the Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha is the loss of the arolia (adhesive pads) on the pretarsi of the insects. These two infraorders comprise 90% of Heteroptera species.

These insects are a part of the old, informal classification of "Geocorisae" (land bugs). Among these bugs, parental care has evolved several times. Parental care varies from brooding of the eggs by the female, to a more active form that involves protection of young against predators and the female covering the nymphs under her body.

Superfamilies and families

BioLib includes:

  1. superfamily Cimicoidea Latreille, 1802

  2. Anthocoridae Fieber, 1837 – flower bugs, pirate bugs

  3. Cimicidae Latreille, 1802 – bedbugs

  4. Nabidae A. Costa, 1853 – damsel bugs

  5. Curaliidae Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008

  6. Lasiochilidae

  7. Lyctocoridae Reuter, 1884

  8. Plokiophilidae China, 1953

  9. Polyctenidae Westwood, 1874 – Old World bat bugs

  10. superfamily Miroidea Hahn, 1833

  11. Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859

  12. Miridae Hahn, 1833 – plant bugs

  13. Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006

  14. superfamily Reduvioidea Latreille, 1807

  15. Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 – assassin and thread-legged bugs

  16. Ceresopseidae Becker-Migdisova, 1958

  17. Pachynomidae Stål, 1873

  18. superfamily Tingoidea Laporte, 1832

  19. Tingidae Laporte, 1832 – lace bugs

  20. Hispanocaderidae Golub & Popov, 2012

  21. Ignotingidae Zhang, Golub, Popov & Shcherbakov, 2005

  22. superfamily Joppeicoidea Reuter, 1910

  23. Joppeicidae Reuter, 1910

  24. superfamily Thaumastocoroidea Kirkaldy, 1908

  25. Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908 – royal palm bugs

incertae sedisincertae sedis and other fossil taxa

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