Seed bugs and allies | |
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Spilostethus pandurus (Lygaeidae) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Infraorder: | Pentatomomorpha |
Superfamily: | Lygaeoidea |
Families | |
Artheneidae |
Artheneidae
Berytidae (stilt bugs)
Blissidae
Colobathristidae
Cryptorhamphidae
Cymidae
Geocoridae
Henicocoridae
Heterogastridae
Idiostolidae
Lygaeidae (true seed bugs)
Malcidae
Ninidae
Oxycarenidae
Pachygronthidae
Rhyparochromidae (atypical seed bugs)
and see text
The Lygaeoidea are a sizeable superfamily of true bugs, containing the seed bugs and allies. The ash-gray leaf bug family (Piesmatidae), usually placed herein, might be closer to the Aradoidea.