Biology:Cimicoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of true bugs

Cimicoidea
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Orius insidiosus
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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 the name of a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha, including bedbugs and related families.[1]


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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. ISSN 1365-3113. 

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