Miroidea Explained

Miroidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the order Hemiptera. There are about 7 families and more than 15,000 described species in Miroidea.

Families

These seven families belong to the superfamily Miroidea:

• Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859
• Miridae (plant bugs)
• Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908
• Tingidae (lace bugs)
• † Berstidae Tihelka et al., 2020
• † Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006
• † Hispanocaderidae Golub and Popov, 2012
• † Ignotingidae Zhang et al., 2005

Further reading

• Web site: 2019-04-13. British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera. 2013. Bantock . T.. Botting . J..
• Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?. 2012. Cryan . Jason R.. Urban . Julie M.. Systematic Entomology. 37. 7–21. 0307-6970. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x. 86564882.
• Biodiversity of the Heteroptera. 2009. Henry . T.J.. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., Eds. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society. 223–263. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223-263. 10.1002/9781444308211.ch10. 9781405151429.
• Phylogenetic Analysis of Cimicomorphan Family Relationships (Heteroptera). 1991. Schuh . Randall T.. S̆tys . Pavel. Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 99. 3. 298–350. 25009911.
• Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis. 2009. Schuh . Randall T.. Weirauch . Christiane. Wheeler . Ward C.. Systematic Entomology. 34. 15–48. 0307-6970. 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. 85422423.