Microphysidae Explained

The Microphysidae are a very small family of true bugs, comprising only 5 extant genera.

Systematics

Until recently, many authors considered these bugs to belong within the family Anthocoridae. A 2022 molecular phylogenetics study groups them with Joppeicidae in the proposed clade Microphysoidea.^[1] A 2023 study recovers them instead as relatively basal Cimiciformes.^[2]

The following genera belong to this family:

Subfamily Microphysinae

• Genus Chinaola Blatchley
• Genus Loricula Curtis (= Microphysa)
• Genus Mallochiola Bergroth
• Genus Myrmedobia Bärensprung
• Genus †Myrmericula Popov
• Genus †Popovophysa McKellar & Engel 2011, Canadian amber, Campanian
• Genus †Tytthophysa Popov & Herczek 2009 Baltic amber, Eocene

Subfamily Ciorullinae

• Genus Ciorulla Péricart

Notes and References

1. 10.1111/cla.12501 . Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants . 2022 . Ye . Fei . Kment . Petr . Rédei . Dávid . Luo . Jiu-Yang . Wang . Yan-Hui . Kuechler . Stefan M. . Zhang . Wei-Wei . Chen . Ping-Ping . Wu . Hao-Yang . Wu . Yan-Zhuo . Sun . Xiao-Ya . Ding . Lu . Wang . Yue-Ran . Xie . Qiang . Cladistics . 38 . 4 . 403–428 . 35349192 .
2. 10.3390/insects14030267. free . Molecular Phylogeny of Cimicoidea (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) Revisited: Increased Taxon Sampling Reveals Evolution of Traumatic Insemination and Paragenitalia . 2023 . Jung . Sunghoon . Kim . Junggon . Balvín . Ondřej . Yamada . Kazutaka . Insects . 14 . 3 . 267 . 36975952 . 10051671 .