The Cimicomorpha are an infraorder of insects in the order Hemiptera, the true bugs. The rostrum and other morphology of some members apparently is adapted to feeding on animals as their prey or hosts. Members include bed bugs, bat bugs, assassin bugs, and pirate bugs.
The two infraorders Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha have very similar characteristics, possibly as a result of the evolution of plant feeding. The key similarity that unites the Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha is the loss of the arolia (adhesive pads) on the pretarsi of the insects. These two infraorders comprise 90% of Heteroptera species.
These insects are a part of the old, informal classification of "Geocorisae" (land bugs). Among these bugs, parental care has evolved several times. Parental care varies from brooding of the eggs by the female, to a more active form that involves protection of young against predators and the female covering the nymphs under her body.
Superfamilies and families BioLib includes:BioLib.cz: infraorder Cimicomorpha Latreille, 1802 (retrieved 28 August 2020) superfamily Cimicoidea Latreille, 1802 Anthocoridae Fieber, 1837 – flower bugs, pirate bugs Cimicidae Latreille, 1802 – bedbugs Nabidae A. Costa, 1853 – damsel bugs Curaliidae Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008 Lasiochilidae Lyctocoridae Reuter, 1884 Plokiophilidae China, 1953 Polyctenidae Westwood, 1874 – Old World bat bugs
superfamily Miroidea Hahn, 1833 Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859 Miridae Hahn, 1833 – plant bugs Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006
superfamily Reduvioidea Latreille, 1807 Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 – assassin and thread-legged bugs Ceresopseidae Becker-Migdisova, 1958 Pachynomidae Stål, 1873
superfamily Tingoidea Laporte, 1832 Tingidae Laporte, 1832 – lace bugs Hispanocaderidae Golub & Popov, 2012 Ignotingidae Zhang, Golub, Popov & Shcherbakov, 2005
superfamily Joppeicoidea Reuter, 1910 Joppeicidae Reuter, 1910
superfamily Thaumastocoroidea Kirkaldy, 1908 Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908 – royal palm bugs
incertae sedis and other fossil taxa Velocipedidae Bergroth, 1891 Vetanthocoridae Yao et al., 2006 Torirostratidae Yao, Cai, Shih & Engel 2014 genus Sternocoris Popov, 1986
References
External links True Bugs. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.