Dipsocoromorpha
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The Dipsocoromorpha are a suborder of the bedbugs (Heteroptera). The family group includes only about 200 described species worldwide.
distribution
The focus of the biodiversity of this suborder is in the tropics and it is assumed that many so far undiscovered species can be expected here. Only a few representatives penetrate into the temperate climate zones.
Features and way of life
Among the Dipsocoromorpha are the smallest bugs with a body size of less than 0.5 millimeters. They reach a maximum length of about 4 millimeters. They are soft-skinned, darkly colored insects with hardly sclerotized, originally built forewings. Short-winged (brachyptere) forms predominate, long-winged (macroptere) individuals, mostly females, are rare. In their outward appearance they hardly resemble the other types of bedbugs. The genitals of the males are also very different from the usual structure. The third and fourth segments of the antennae are thread-like and pinnate; the first and second are very thick.
The representatives of this group of bugs lead a hidden way of life in the uppermost soil layers within the litter and in the moss in damp and shady locations. They are rarely caught, which is why their way of life and distribution is poorly known. They all seem to be unspecialized predators .
Systematics
The monophyly of the seven partial orders of the bedbugs was confirmed in a multigene study from 2012 based on molecular phylogeny. This showed that the Dipsocoromorpha is closely related to the partial order of the Gerromorpha .
In Europe, 11 species have been found in two families:
- Partial order: Dipsocoromorpha
- Superfamily: Dipsocoroidea
- Family: Ceratocombidae
- Family: Dipsocoridae
- Superfamily: Dipsocoroidea
See also
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Min Li, Ying Tian, Ying Zhao, Wenjun Bu (2012): Higher Level Phylogeny and the First Divergence Time Estimation of Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) Based on Multiple Genes. PLoS ONE 7 (2): e32152. doi : 10.1371 / journal.pone.0032152 (open access)
- ^ Dipsocoromorpha. Fauna Europaea, accessed October 13, 2013 .
literature
- E. Wachmann , A. Melber & J. Deckert: Bugs. Volume 1: Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha, Cimicomorpha (Part 1), revision of the bugs in Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland, Goecke & Evers, Keltern, 2006. ISBN 3-931374-49-1
- E. Wagner: Heteroptera Hemiptera. - In: Brohmer, P., P. Ehrmann & G. Ulmer (eds.): Die Tierwelt Mitteleuropas. IV, 3 (Xa). - Leipzig 1959, 173 pp.
