Lygaeoidea

Taxobox
name = Seed bugs and allies

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Lygaeus equestris", a true seed bug (Lygaeidae)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
subclassis = Pterygota
infraclassis = Neoptera
superordo = Paraneoptera
ordo = Hemiptera
subordo = Heteroptera
infraordo = Pentatomomorpha
superfamilia = Lygaeoidea
superfamilia_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Families
subdivision =
Artheneidae
Berytidae (stilt bugs)
Blissidae
Colobathristidae
Cryptorhamphidae
Cymidae
Geocoridae
Heterogastridae
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. [Grimaldi & Engel (2007)]

Footnotes

References

* (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 [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5909/1/N3611.pdf PDF fulltext]