- Lygaeidae
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Lygaeidae Lygaeus pandurus Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera Suborder: Heteroptera Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha Superfamily: Lygaeoidea Family: Lygaeidae
(Schilling, 1829)Subfamilies Bledionotinae
Henestarinae
Ischnorhynchinae
Lygaeinae
Orsillinae
PsamminaeThe Lygaeidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), with some 60 genera in six subfamilies. The family includes the insects commonly known as milkweed bugs, and also some of those known as seed bugs. The family used to be vastly larger, as numerous former subfamilies have been removed and given independent family status, including Artheneidae, Blissidae, Cryptorhamphidae, Cymidae, Geocoridae, Heterogastridae, Ninidae, Oxycarenidae, Pachygronthidae, and Rhyparochromidae, which together constituted well over half of the former family. Many of the species feed on seeds, although some feed on sap (mucivory), and a few, such as the wekiu bug, feed on insects.
The bizarre and mysterious beetle-like Psamminae were formerly often placed in the Piesmatidae, but this is almost certainly quite incorrect. Their true affiliations, however, are not entirely resolved to satisfaction.[1]
List of Genera
Subfamily Bledionotinae
- Austropamphantus
- Bledionotus
- Pamphantus
Subfamily Henestarinae
- Engistus
- Henestaris
Subfamily Ischnorhynchinae (this subfamily is occasionally treated at the family level)
- Acanthocrompus
- Cerocrompus
- Crompus
- Kleidocerys
- Koscocrompus
- Neokleidocerys
- Pylorgus
Subfamily Lygaeinae (list incomplete; at least 30 included genera)
- Lygaeus
- Lygaeospilus
- Melanocoryphus
- Melanopleurus
- Neacoryphus
- Ochrimnus
- Oncopeltus
Subfamily Orsillinae (this subfamily is occasionally treated at the family level)
- Austronysius
- Belonochilus
- Eurynysius
- Hyalonysius
- Lepionysius
- Neortholomus
- Neseis
- Nithecus
- Nysius
- Oceanides
- Orsillus
- Ortholomus
- Reticulatonysius
- Xyonysius
Subfamily Psamminae
- Psammium
- Saxicoris
- Sympeplus
References
- ^ David A. Grimaldi & Michael S. Engel (2007). "An unusual, primitive Piesmatidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma)" (PDF). 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.
External links
- Lygaeidae, BugGuide
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