The Cimicomorpha are an infraorder of

insect Insects (from Latin ') are pancrustacean hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body ( head, thorax and abdomen), three pa ...

s in the order

Hemiptera Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from to arou ...

, the true bugs. The rostrum and other morphology of all members apparently is adapted to feeding on animals as their

prey Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill ...

or hosts. Members include

bed bugs Bed bugs are insects from the genus ''Cimex'' that feed on blood, usually at night. Their bites can result in a number of health impacts including skin rashes, psychological effects, and allergic symptoms. Bed bug bites may lead to skin changes ...

bat bug Bat bugs are blood-sucking insect parasites that feed primarily on the blood of bats. The name has been applied to members of the family '' Cimicidae'' (e.g. ''Cimex lectularius'', '' Afrocimex constrictus'') and also to members of the family '' ...

s, assassin bugs, and pirate bugs. The two infraorders Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha have very similar characteristics, possibly as a result of the evolution of plant feeding. The key similarity that unites the Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha is the loss of the arolia (adhesive pads) on the pretarsi of the insects. These two infraorders comprise 90% of Heteroptera species. These insects are a part of the old, informal classification of “Geocorisae” (land bugs). Among these bugs, parental care has evolved several times. Parental care varies from brooding of the eggs by the female, to a more active form that involves protection of young against predators and the female covering the nymphs under her body.

Superfamilies and families

''BioLib'' includes:BioLib.cz: infraorder Cimicomorpha Latreille, 1802
(retrieved 28 August 2020) ;superfamily Cimicoidea Latreille, 1802 *

Anthocoridae Anthocoridae is a family of bugs, commonly called minute pirate bugs or flower bugs. Worldwide there are 500-600 species. Description Anthocoridae are 1.5–5 mm long and have soft, elongated oval, flat bodies, often patterned in black an ...

Fieber, 1837 – flower bugs, pirate bugs *

Cimicidae The Cimicidae are a family of small parasitic bugs that feed exclusively on the blood of warm-blooded animals. They are called cimicids or, loosely, bed bugs, though the latter term properly refers to the most famous member of the family, ''C ...

Latreille, 1802 – bedbugs * Nabidae A. Costa, 1853 – damsel bugs * Curaliidae Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008 * Lasiochilidae * Lyctocoridae Reuter, 1884 * Plokiophilidae China, 1953 *

Polyctenidae The Polyctenidae are a rarely collected family of parasitic bugs of the superfamily Cimicoidea. Polyctenidae species or bat bugs are obligate, hematophagous ectoparasites of bats. These insects are not to be confused with cimicid bat bugs, wh ...

Westwood, 1874 – Old World bat bugs ;superfamily

Miroidea 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 * Mir ...

Hahn, 1833 * Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859 * Miridae Hahn, 1833 – plant bugs * Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006 ;superfamily Reduvioidea Latreille, 1807 * Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 – assassin and thread-legged bugs * Ceresopseidae Becker-Migdisova, 1958 * Pachynomidae Stål, 1873 * Palaeotanyrhinidae Poinar, Brown & Kóbor, 2022† ;superfamily Tingoidea Laporte, 1832 *

Tingidae The Tingidae are a family of very small () insects in the order Hemiptera that are commonly referred to as lace bugs. This group is distributed worldwide with about 2,000 described species. They are called lace bugs because the pronotum and for ...

Laporte, 1832 – lace bugs * Hispanocaderidae Golub & Popov, 2012 † * Ignotingidae Zhang, Golub, Popov & Shcherbakov, 2005 † ;superfamily Joppeicoidea Reuter, 1910 * Joppeicidae Reuter, 1910 ;superfamily Thaumastocoroidea Kirkaldy, 1908 * Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908 – royal palm bugs

incertae sedis ' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ...
and other fossil taxa

* Velocipedidae Bergroth, 1891 * Vetanthocoridae Yao et al., 2006 † * Torirostratidae Yao, Cai, Shih & Engel 2014 † * genus ''Sternocoris'' Popov, 1986 †

References

External links

True Bugs.
Planetary Biodiversity Inventory. {{Taxonbar, from=Q135338 Heteroptera Insect infraorders

Superfamilies and families

incertae sedis ' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ... and other fossil taxa

References

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incertae sedis ' () or ''problematica'' is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertain ...
and other fossil taxa