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HEMIPTERA (bugs)

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Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #refs #webs
Family ACANTHOSOMATIDAE (a family of phytophagous shieldbugs) 4 8 28
Family ALYDIDAE (ant bugs) 1 2 5
Family ANTHOCORIDAE (flower bugs) 1 4 68
Family APHELOCHEIRIDAE (aphelocheirid bugs)   1  
Family ARADIDAE (flat bark bugs) 1   60
Family BERYTINIDAE (stiltbugs) 1   43
Family CIMICIDAE (bed bugs)     28
Family COREIDAE (squashbugs) 5 4 65
Family CORIXIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen) 9 11  
Family CYDNIDAE (a family of shieldbugs) 5 7 36
Family GERRIDAE (pond skaters) 3 1  
Family HYDROMETRIDAE (water measurers) 1 1  
Family LYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs) 13 4 145
Family MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs)   2  
Family MICROPHYSIDAE (minute bugs) 1    
Genus Loricula (a genus of minute bugs)   1 11
Genus Myrmedobia (a genus of minute bugs)     8
Family MIRIDAE (capsid bugs or plant bugs, and grassbugs) 32 13 510
Family NABIDAE (damsel bugs) 4 4 12
Family NAUCORIDAE (saucer bugs, creeping water bugs) 1    
Species Ilyocoris cimicoides (Linnaeus) (Saucer Bug)   1  
Family NEPIDAE (water scorpions)   1  
Family NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers) 1 1  
Family PENTATOMIDAE (a family of shieldbugs) 9 11 110
Family PIESMIDAE (beet bugs)     21
Family PLEIDAE (a family of lesser waterboatmen)   2  
Family PYRRHOCORIDAE (firebugs) 1 2 8
Family REDUVIIDAE (assassin bugs) 1   18
Family RHOPALIDAE (rhopalid bugs) 3 4 35
Family SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)   3 21
Family TINGIDAE (lace bugs) 6 4 74
Family VELIIDAE (water crickets) 2 2  
Informal (water bugs) (Aquatic Hemiptera) 24 27  

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

British Bugs - an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/ British Bugs - an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
Davis, B.N.K., 1991 Insects on Nettles
Guthrie, M., 1989 Animals of the Surface Film
Kirby, P., in prep. British Heteroptera: Draft keys to families and to species in terrestrial familes other than...
Nau, B.S., in prep. Heteroptera of the British Isles
Saunders, E., 1892 The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands
Danmarks Blomstertæger: http://www.miridae.dk/ Danmarks Blomstertæger
Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959 Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles
Unwin, D., 2001 A Key to the Families of British Bugs (Insecta, Hemiptera)
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut)

Foodplants

Hawkins, R.D., 1985 Some foods of Heteroptera larvae in the wild

on cherry trees

Leather, S.R. & Bland, K.P., 1999 Insects on cherry trees

on thistles

Redfern, M., 1995 Insects and Thistles

Stored product pests

Mound, L. (ed), 1989 Common Insects of Stored Products: a guide to their identification.

General Works

HetNews (Includes downloadable cross-reference list updating names in Southwood and Leston#) HetNews
Hets discussion group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hets/join Hets discussion group
Bug anatomy: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/bug_bits.html Bug anatomy
Eversham, B., 1985 Some possible additions to the British List
Nau B.S., 2006 Current names of Southwood & Leston (1959) Heteroptera species

Dead wood

Alexander, K.N.A., 2002 The Invertebrates of Living and Decaying Timber in Britain and Ireland - a Provisional Annotated Checklist

Journals

Het News Journal

Nature Conservation

anon., 1983 A revised list of threatened and rare Heteroptera

HEMIPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
EUMETAZOA
(metazoans)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)
Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

HEMIPTERA is associated with:

There may be taxa associated with Hemiptera listed at higher taxonomic level

INSECTA
(insects)

Associated with HEMIPTERA:

is taken to the nest of female Dryudella pinguis - a digger wasp (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) UK/Ireland Macdonald, M.A., in prep.

Hemiptera may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)
Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

References

Macdonald, M.A., in prep. Forage, prey and host-parasite relationships of aculeates
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