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.[1]

Coreoidea
Corizus hyoscyami of the Rhopalidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Coreoidea
Families

Five extant, two extinct, see text

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]

The families are:

  • 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

References

  1. Webb, Nick; Eades, David C. (2019). "Coreoidea species file online, Version 5.0". Retrieved 2019-05-01.
  2. ToL (1995, 2005)


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