Pentatomomorpha

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Pentatomomorpha
Box Elder Bug, Boissea trivittata (Coreoidea: Rhopalidae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Paraneoptera
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamilies

Aradoidea
Coreoidea
Lygaeoidea
Pentatomoidea
Pyrrhocoroidea
and see text

Pentatomomorpha is an infraorder of insects in the true bug order (Hemiptera). It unites such animals as the plant bugs (Miridae), stink bugs (Pentatomidae), flat bugs (Aradidae), seed bugs (Lygaeidae and Rhyparochromidae), etc.

The Piesmatidae, usually placed in the Lygaeoidea, are better considered incertae sedis pending a more thorough analysis, as the most ancient member of that family is strikingly similar to some prehistoric Aradoidea.[1]

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Grimaldi & Engel (2007)

[edit] References

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  • Grimaldi, David A. & Engel, Michael S. (2007): An Unusual, Primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma). American Museum Novitates 3611: 1-17. DOI:10.1206/0003-0082(2008)3611[1:AUPPIH]2.0.CO;2 PDF fulltext


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