Biology:Coreoidea

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Short description: Superfamily of true bugs

Coreoidea
Temporal range: Late Triassic–Recent
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Corizus hyoscyami of the Rhopalidae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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]

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
  • † Pachymeridiidae[3] Handlirsch, 1906

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1408389 entry