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

Suborder Heteroptera - True Bugs


Schuh, R.T. 2024. On-line Species Pages of Heteroptera (Insecta)
cite:2343351
Updated database of Heteroptera specimen data (primarily AMNH specimens).

Moreira F.F.F. (2013) Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs...
[cite:860225]
Full title: Distributional database of the water striders, water bugs, and kissing bugs (Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha & Cimicomorpha: Reduviidae: Triatominae)

Skipper L. (2003-2012) Danmarks Blomstertæger
[cite:610862]
'The plant bugs of Denmark': a marvelous, bountiful resource covering all the heteropteran fauna, with emphasis on the Miridae. In Danish. Worth exploring in depth... and picking up some language along the way (quite manageable)

Gogala A. (2014) Heteroptera of Slovenia
[cite:609850]
excellent photos and brief profiles of most species that made their way from Europe to NA (another valuable resource of such info is(1))

Choate P.M. (YYYY) Identification key to the principal families of Florida Heteroptera
[cite:360712]
Illustrated by photos of David Almquist

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

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

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."

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.