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Family Polyctenidae - Bat Bugs

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Superfamily Cimicoidea

Family Polyctenidae (Bat Bugs)

Explanation of Names

Polyctenidae Westwood 1874

Numbers

2 spp. in a single genus in our area, 32 spp. in 5 genera of 2 subfamilies total(1)

Range

circumtropical: the nominate subfamily (Polyctenidae) Palaeotropical, the Hesperocteninae (1 genus) Neotropical (ranging into so. CA & so. TX)(1)

Food

hosts: bats; in our area, Molassidae(2)

Works Cited

1.	Checklist of World Polyctenidae (Hempitera: Cimicoidea) Dick C.W. 2007.

2.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by v belov on 29 July, 2019 - 11:31am
Last updated 29 July, 2019 - 6:48pm

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