Coreoidea

Coreoidea Temporal range:
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Corizus hyoscyami of the Rhopalidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Infraorder:	Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily:	Coreoidea Reuter 1910
Families
Five extant, two extinct, see text

Coreoidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha which includes leaf-footed bugs and allies. There are more than 3,300 described species in Coreoidea.

There are five extant families presently recognized, but the Coreoidea as a whole are part of a close-knit group with the Lygaeoidea and Pyrrhocoroidea and it is likely that these three superfamilies are paraphyletic to a significant extent; they are therefore in need of revision and redelimitation.

The families are:

• Alydidae Amyot & Serville, 1843 – broad-headed bugs
• Coreidae Leach, 1815 – leaf-footed bugs and squash bugs
• Hyocephalidae Bergroth, 1906
• Rhopalidae – scentless plant bugs
• Stenocephalidae Amyot & Serville, 1843
• † Trisegmentatidae Zhang, Sun & Zhang, 1994
• † Yuripopovinidae Azar, Nel, Engel, Garrouste & Matocq, 2011
• † Pachymeridiidae Handlirsch, 1906

External links

• Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• File:Wikispecies-logo.svg Data related to Coreoidea at Wikispecies
• Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (1995): Pentatomomorpha. Flat bugs, stink bugs, seed bugs, leaf-footed bugs, scentless plant bugs, etc.. Version of 1995-JAN-01. Retrieved 2008-JUL-28.
• Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) (2005): Coreoidea. Broad-headed bugs, leaf-footed bugs, scentless plant bugs, etc.. Version of 2005-JUN-21. Retrieved 2008-JUL-28.