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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Leatherbugs (Coreoidea)

Superfamily Coreoidea - Leatherbugs

Classification · Numbers · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited
Broad-headed bug - Stachyocnemus apicalis Broad-Headed Bug - Hyalymenus Plant Bug - Protenor belfragei BG2913 E4942 - Stenocoris Western Conifer Seed Bug - Leptoglossus occidentalis Chelinidea vittiger? - Chelinidea vittiger - female Coreid - Merocoris distinctus BG3074 E8971 - Jadera haematoloma True Bug - Harmostes
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 Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Coreoidea (Leatherbugs)
Numbers
>150 spp. in 54 genera of 3 families in our area(1); ca. 2,300 spp. in >300 genera of 5 families worldwide(2) (two small families with <20 spp. between them are not represented in the New World)(3)
Range
worldwide(3)(2)
Food
all are plant feeders(1)(2)
Internet References
Coreoidea of Texas (Quinn 2017)
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.
3.Livermore L.J.R., Lemaître V.A., Dolling W.R., Webb M.D. Coreoidea species file online. Version 5.0
Contributed by v belov on 29 November, 2010 - 11:21am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, Arturo Santos
Last updated 20 April, 2023 - 3:01pm

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