Coreoidea Explained

Coreoidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha which includes leaf-footed bugs and allies. There are more than 3,300 described species in Coreoidea.

There are five extant families presently recognized, but the Coreoidea as a whole are part of a close-knit group with the Lygaeoidea and Pyrrhocoroidea and it is likely that these three superfamilies are paraphyletic to a significant extent; they are therefore in need of revision and redelimitation.^[1]

The families are:

• Alydidae Amyot & Serville, 1843  - broad-headed bugs
• Coreidae Leach, 1815  - leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs
• Hyocephalidae Bergroth, 1906
• Rhopalidae  - scentless plant bugs
• Stenocephalidae Amyot & Serville, 1843
• † Trisegmentatidae Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
• † Yuripopovinidae Azar, Nel, Engel, Garrouste & Matocq, 2011
• † Pachymeridiidae^[2] Handlirsch, 1906

External links

• • • (1995): Pentatomomorpha. Flat bugs, stink bugs, seed bugs, leaf-footed bugs, scentless plant bugs, etc.. Version of 1995-JAN-01. Retrieved 2008-JUL-28.
• (2005): Coreoidea. Broad-headed bugs, leaf-footed bugs, scentless plant bugs, etc.. Version of 2005-JUN-21. Retrieved 2008-JUL-28.

Notes and References

1. ToL (1995, 2005)
2. Dai . Rui . Du . Sile . Ren . Dong . Yao . Yunzhi . August 2022 . New Cretaceous Bugs from Northeastern China Imply the Systematic Position of Pachymeridiidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) . Insects . en . 13 . 8 . 689 . 10.3390/insects13080689 . 36005314 . 9408836 . 2075-4450. free .