Systematics of bedbugs

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Corixa punctata (Nepomorpha: Corixidae)
Water scorpion ( Nepa cinerea ) (Nepomorpha: Nepidae)
Common back swimmer ( Notonecta glauca ) (Nepomorpha: Notonectidae)
Common water strider ( Gerris lacustris ) (Gerromorpha: Gerridae)
Chartoscirta cocksii (Leptopodomorpha: Saldidae)
Nabis rugosus (Cimicomorpha: Nabidae)
Bed bug ( Cimex lectularius ) (Cimicomorpha: Cimicidae)
Red murder bug ( Rhynocoris iracundus ) (Cimicomorpha: Reduviidae)
Sycamore net bug ( Corythucha ciliata ) (Cimicomorpha: Tingidae)
Elasmucha grisea (Pentatomomorpha: Acanthosomatidae)
Strip bug (
Graphosoma lineatum ) (Pentatomomorpha: Pentatomidae)

The taxonomic classification within the bugs was traditionally based on the shape of the antennae . Pierre André Latreille distinguished two groups according to this feature in 1825, which he named after the way of life Hydrocorisae (water bugs) and Geocorisae (land bugs); the Hydrocorisae correspond to today's suborder Nepomorpha ( water bugs ). In 1833, Léon Dufour separated the Amphibicorisae (water striders) from the Geocorisae, today's suborder Gerromorpha . In 1861 Franz Xaver Fieber introduced the different names Cryptocerata, with hidden antennae, for the Hydrocorisae and Gymnocerata, with antennae that are free and visible from above, for the Geocorisae. Since the work of Leston, Pendergrast and Southwood (1954) and the other authors mentioned, one differentiates between seven partial orders within the bedbugs. Schuh & Slater (1995) also followed this subdivision. The monophyly of all seven was finally confirmed in a multigene study in 2012 based on molecular phylogeny. According to this, the combination of the two partial orders Gerromorpha and Dipsocoromorpha , as suggested alternatively by some authors, is not justified.

The following system of bedbugs is carried out down to the family level and is based on Schuh & Slater (1995), supplemented by the more recent work by Henry (1997) on the Pentatomomorpha and Grazia, Schuh & Wheeler (2008) on the Pentatomoidea and is supplemented by the superfamilies according to Foottit & Adler (2009)

supporting documents

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dennis Leston , JG Pendergrast & Richard Southwood : Classification of the terrestrial Heteroptera (Geocorisae). Nature 174, 1954, 91.
  2. a b R.T. Schuh, JA Slater: True Bugs of the World (Hemiptera: Heteroptera). Classification and Natural History. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1995.
  3. 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)
  4. ^ TJ Henry: Phylogenetic analysis of family groups within the infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the Lygaeoidea. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 90 (3): 275-301, 1997.
  5. Jocelia Grazia, Randall T. Schuh & Ward C. Wheeler: Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera). Cladistics 24 (2008), pp. 932-976.
  6. Robert G. Foottit, Peter H. Adler: Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society . Wiley-Blackwell, New York 2009, ISBN 978-1-4051-5142-9 .