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Cimicoidea

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Polyctenidae
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Cimicoidea

Jordan (1912) and Ferris & Usinger (1939)
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Cimicidae
Polyctenidae

Cimicoidea is the name of a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha that have a mandible modified as a straw-like rostrum used for feeding on animals as their host or prey.