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Infraorder Pentatomomorpha

What is it? I'm at a loss on how to do searches besides looking at pictures. This is my first post. - Acanthocephala terminalis Shield-backed Bug Pentatomidae instar - Podisus Female, Chelinidea vittiger? - Chelinidea vittiger - female Nisoscolopocerus apiculatus? - Nisoscolopocerus apiculatus Brown Bug - Drymus brunneus Large Antenna Lygaeidae?  - Sisamnes claviger Largus succinctus (used for article in Rearing forum) - Largus succinctus
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
Numbers
worldwide, >16,200 spp. in >2620 genera of 42 families, arranged into 5 superfamilies(1)
Range
worldwide(1)
Food
mostly herbivores, incl. seed- and root-feeders; some are predators (Geocoridae, Asopinae, some exotic Pyrrhocoridae; some Berytidae zoophagous); members of one exotic tribe of the Rhyparochromidae are hematophagous(1)
Works Cited
1.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.