Miroidea

Miroidea
Acalypta nigrina
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Cimicomorpha
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.

Zosippus inhonestus

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

• Bantock, T.; Botting, J. (2013). "British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera". Retrieved 2019-04-13.
• Cryan, Jason R.; Urban, Julie M. (2012). "Higher-level phylogeny of the insect order Hemiptera: is Auchenorrhyncha really paraphyletic?". Systematic Entomology. 37: 7–21. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 86564882.
• Henry, T.J. (2009). "Biodiversity of the Heteroptera". In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., Eds. Insect Biodiversity: Science and Society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223-263: 223–263. doi:10.1002/9781444308211.ch10. ISBN 9781405151429.
• Schuh, Randall T.; S̆tys, Pavel (1991). "Phylogenetic Analysis of Cimicomorphan Family Relationships (Heteroptera)". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 99 (3): 298–350. JSTOR 25009911.
• Schuh, Randall T.; Weirauch, Christiane; Wheeler, Ward C. (2009). "Phylogenetic relationships within the Cimicomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera): a total-evidence analysis". Systematic Entomology. 34: 15–48. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00436.x. ISSN 0307-6970. S2CID 85422423.