Family Leptopodidae - Spiny-Legged Bugs

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited

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 Leptopodomorpha

Family Leptopodidae (Spiny-Legged Bugs)

Explanation of Names

Leptopodidae Brullé 1836

Numbers

A single (adventive) species in our area(1), ~40 spp. in 10 genera total(2)

Range

worldwide(2); in our area, w. US to ID‒TX(1)(2)(Brothers 1979)

Habitat

most live along streams and other wet areas, but our species (the adventive Patapius spinosus) can be found far from water in semiarid conditions(2)

Works Cited

1.	Alien true bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in Canada: composition and adaptations Scudder G.G.E., Foottit R.G. 2006. Can. Entomol. 138: 24-51.

2.	Biodiversity of the Heteroptera Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.

Contributed by v belov on 1 February, 2012 - 8:16pm
Last updated 9 October, 2023 - 3:02pm

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