Biology:Miroidea
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Short description: Superfamily of true bugs
| Miroidea | |
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| Acalypta nigrina | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Cimicomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Miroidea |
Miroidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are about 7 families and more than 15,000 described species in Miroidea.[1][2]
Families
These seven families belong to the superfamily Miroidea:
- Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859
- Miridae (plant bugs)
- Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908
- Tingidae (lace bugs)
- † Berstidae Tihelka et al., 2020
- † Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006
- † Hispanocaderidae Golub and Popov, 2012
- † Ignotingidae Zhang et al., 2005
References
Further reading
- Bantock, T.; Botting, J. (2013). "British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera". http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/.
- Cryan, Jason R.; Urban, Julie M. (2012). "Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?". Systematic Entomology 37: 7–21. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
- Henry, T.J. (2009). "Biodiversity of the Heteroptera". In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., Eds. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223-263): 223–263. doi:10.1002/9781444308211.ch10. ISBN 9781405151429.
- Schuh, Randall T.; S̆tys, Pavel (1991). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Cimicomorphan Family Relationships (Heteroptera)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society 99 (3): 298–350.
- Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology 34: 15–48. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. ISSN 0307-6970.
Wikidata ☰ Q3858904 entry
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