Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Suborder Heteroptera - True Bugs


Identification Key to the Principal Families of Florida Heteroptera, by P. M. Choate
Illustrated by photographs of David Almquist. Rich bibliography provided.

Checklist of the Hemiptera of Oklahoma
Extensive checklist, with bibliography.

(This is an old link, formerly under Hemiptera, a classification no longer used here.)

Featured Creatures: Florida Predatory Stink Bug

Revision of the New World Plagiognathus
Full title: Revision of New World Plagiognathus Fieber : with comments on the Palearctic fauna and the description of a new genus (Heteroptera, Miridae, Phylinae). Bulletin of the AMNH ; no. 266. Author Randall T. Schuh.

Sucking Insects or Mites (USDA FOREST SERVICE GENERAL TECHNICAL REPORT NC-57)
"This category includes those insects that insert their mouthparts into a leaf or twig and suck the juices from the plant."

Waterstriders (Gerromorpha)
Researcher in Illinois working on water striders. Has links to a checklist, showing some recent (?) revisions of genera. Photos of some species and some discusison on ecology.

Halobates - Oceanic Insects
These are the only pelagic (offshore in salt water) insects. Rather an extensive web site--several pages on biology, taxonomy, etc. Looks like North American species should be: 1-Halobates micans, Gulf of Mexico and southeastern Atlantic coast, and offshore. 2-H. sericeus, southern Pacific coast.

Water Striders--Bug of the Month
Concise summary of water striders.