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HEMIPTERA (bugs)

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs
Family ACANTHOSOMATIDAE (a family of phytophagous shieldbugs) 4 23 24   8
Family ALYDIDAE (ant bugs) 1 2     2
Family ANTHOCORIDAE (flower bugs) 1 5 8   4
Family ARADIDAE (flat bark bugs) 1 7 5    
Family BERYTINIDAE (stiltbugs) 1 7 7    
Family COREIDAE (squashbugs) 5 43 12   4
Family CORIXIDAE (a family of lesser water boatmen) 9 8 49   9
Family CYDNIDAE (a family of shieldbugs) 4 6 21   5
Family GERRIDAE (pond skaters) 3 11 18    
Family HYDROMETRIDAE (water measurers) 1 11      
Family LYGAEIDAE (seed bugs or ground bugs) 13 54 50   4
Family MICROPHYSIDAE (minute bugs) 1        
Genus Loricula (a genus of minute bugs)         1
Family MIRIDAE (capsid bugs or plant bugs, and grassbugs) 31 66 85   11
Family NABIDAE (damsel bugs) 4        
Genus Himacerus (a genus of damsel bugs) 1 6 7    
Genus Nabis (a genus of damsel bugs) 2       3
Species Prostemma guttula (Fabricius) (a damsel bug)         1
Family NAUCORIDAE (saucer bugs, creeping water bugs) 1        
Species Ilyocoris cimicoides (Linnaeus) (Saucer Bug)   3 3   1
Family NOTONECTIDAE (backswimmers) 1 24 3    
Family PENTATOMIDAE (a family of shieldbugs) 9 146 42   11
Family PYRRHOCORIDAE (firebugs) 1       2
Family REDUVIIDAE (assassin bugs) 1   2    
Family RHOPALIDAE (rhopalid bugs) 3 23 4   4
Family SALDIDAE (shorebugs) 3 6 3    
Family SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)         3
Family TINGIDAE (lace bugs) 6 13 31 3 4
Family VELIIDAE (water crickets) 2        
Genus Microvelia (a genus of water crickets)         1
Species Velia caprai Tamanini (Water Cricket)   14 3    
Informal (water bugs) (Aquatic Hemiptera) 24 77 79   16

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

British Bugs - an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera: http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/ British Bugs - an online identification guide to UK Hemiptera
Davis, B.N.K., 1991 Insects on Nettles
Guthrie, M., 1989 Animals of the Surface Film
Kirby, P., in prep. British Heteroptera: Draft keys to families and to species in terrestrial familes other than...
Nau, B.S., in prep. Heteroptera of the British Isles
Saunders, E., 1892 The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands
Danmarks Blomstertæger: http://www.miridae.dk/ Danmarks Blomstertæger
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 (Insecta, Hemiptera)
Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut): http://users.skynet.be/jjw.myco.mons Cercle de Mycologie de Mons (Belgique): (Page perso de JJ. Wuilbaut)

Foodplants

Hawkins, R.D., 1985 Some foods of Heteroptera larvae in the wild

on cherry trees

Leather, S.R. & Bland, K.P., 1999 Insects on cherry trees

on thistles

Redfern, M., 1995 Insects and Thistles

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 34 general literature references to HEMIPTERA (bugs)

HEMIPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
INSECTA
(insects)

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1307 feeding and other relationships of HEMIPTERA (bugs)

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