BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

HEMIPTERA (bugs)

Subtaxa

Rank	Taxon
Family	ACANTHOSOMATIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)	4	8	29	6	5
Family	ALYDIDAE (ant bugs)	1	2		1
Family	APHELOCHEIRIDAE (aphelocheirid bugs)				1
Family	ARADIDAE (a family of flat bark bugs)	1
Genus	Aradus (flat bark bugs)	1	5	7
Family	BERYTINIDAE (stiltbugs)	3	7	14		1
Family	CIMICIDAE (flower bugs, bed bugs)	9	5	8	4	34
Family	COREIDAE (squashbugs)	4	36	12	2	1
Family	CORIXIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen)	13	2	22	8
Family	CYDNIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)	4	6	18	2	2
Family	GERRIDAE (pond skaters)	1
Genus	Gerris (pond skaters)	1	4
Family	HYDROMETRIDAE (water measurers)	1
Genus	Hydrometra (water measurers)	1	11
Family	LYGAEIDAE (ground bugs)	17	63	39	2	17
Family	MESOVELIIDAE (pondweed bugs)				1
Family	MICROPHYSIDAE (minute bugs)	1
Genus	Loricula (a genus of minute bugs)				1
Family	MIRIDAE (plantbugs and grassbugs)	50	45	90	10	44
Family	NABIDAE (damsel bugs)	5	13	5	4	1
Family	NAUCORIDAE (saucer bugs)	1
Species	Ilyocoris cimicoides (Linnaeus) (a saucer bug)				1
Family	NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers)	1
Genus	Notonecta (backswimmers)	1	4
Family	PENTATOMIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)	13	139	35	8	29
Family	PLEIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen)	1
Species	Plea minutissima Leach (a lesser waterboatman)				1
Family	PYRRHOCORIDAE (firebugs)	1			2
Family	REDUVIIDAE (assassin bugs)	1
Species	Coranus subapterus (DeGeer) (an assassin bug)			2
Family	RHOPALIDAE (rhopalid bugs)	3	23	4	2	1
Family	SALDIDAE (shorebugs)	3	6	3
Family	SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)				1
Family	TINGIDAE (lace bugs)	6	13	24	2	2
Family	VELIIDAE (water crickets)	2	14	3	1
Informal	(aquatic Hemiptera) (Water Bugs)	26	41	28	13

Het News	Journal
British Bugs, an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/index.html	Web Site/Page
Davis, B.N.K., 1991	Insects on Nettles
Guthrie, M., 1989	Animals of the Surface Film
Hawkins, R.D., 1985	Some foods of Heteroptera larvae in the wild
Kirby, P., in prep.	British Heteroptera: Draft keys to families and to species in terrestrial familes other than...
Southwood, T.R.E. & Leston, D., 1959	Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles
Unwin, D., 2001	A Key to the Families of British Bugs (Hemiptera)
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons	Web Site/Page

HetNews (Includes downloadable cross-reference list updating names in Southwood and Leston)	Publisher
Hets discussion group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Hets/join	E-forum
UK True Bugs discussion group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK-TrueBugs/join	E-forum
1983	A revised list of threatened and rare Heteroptera
Alexander, K.N.A., 2002	The Invertebrates of Living and Decaying Timber in Britain and Ireland - a Provisional Annotated Checklist
Eversham, B., 1985	Some possible additions to the British List