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Coreoidea

Coreoidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha which includes leaf-footed bugs and allies. There are more than 3,300 described species in Coreoidea.

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Coreoidea
Temporal range:
Corizus hyoscyami of the Rhopalidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Coreoidea
Reuter 1910
Families

Five extant, two extinct, see text

Coreoidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha which includes leaf-footed bugs and allies. There are more than 3,300 described species in Coreoidea.1

There are five extant families presently recognized, but the Coreoidea as a whole are part of a close-knit group with the Lygaeoidea and Pyrrhocoroidea and it is likely that these three superfamilies are paraphyletic to a significant extent; they are therefore in need of revision and redelimitation.2

Families

  • Alydidae Amyot & Serville, 1843 – broad-headed bugs
  • Coreidae Leach, 1815 – leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs
  • Hyocephalidae Bergroth, 1906
  • Rhopalidae – scentless plant bugs
  • Stenocephalidae Amyot & Serville, 1843
  • Trisegmentatidae Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
  • Yuripopovinidae Azar, Nel, Engel, Garrouste & Matocq, 2011
  • Pachymeridiidae3 Handlirsch, 1906
References

References

  1. Webb, Nick; Eades, David C. (2019). "Coreoidea species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  2. ToL (1995, 2005)
  3. Dai, Rui; Du, Sile; Ren, Dong; Yao, Yunzhi (August 2022). "New Cretaceous Bugs from Northeastern China Imply the Systematic Position of Pachymeridiidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)". Insects. 13 (8): 689. doi:10.3390/insects13080689. ISSN 2075-4450. PMC 9408836. PMID 36005314.
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