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Cimicoidea

Cimicoidea is a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha, including bedbugs and related families.

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Cimicoidea
Orius insidiosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Cimicomorpha
Superfamily: Cimicoidea
Jordan (1912) and Ferris & Usinger (1939)
Families

Anthocoridae
Cimicidae
Curaliidae
Lasiochilidae
Lyctocoridae
Plokiophilidae
Polyctenidae

Cimicoidea is a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha, including bedbugs and related families.1


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References

  1. Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34 (1): 15–48. Bibcode:2009SysEn..34...15S. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.498.8756. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 85422423.