TINGIDAE
(lace bugs)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Agramma laetum a lacebug	Species		2 images
Dictyla convergens a lacebug	Species		2 images
Kalama tricornis a lacebug	Species		3 images
Stephanitis takeyai Andromeda Lacebug	Species		15 images	1 ident. refs
Tingis a genus of lacebugs	Genus	3 subtaxa	45 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	TINGIDAE (lace bugs)
Superfamily	TINGOIDEA (a superfamily of bugs)
Infraorder	Cimicomorpha (an infraorder of bugs)
Suborder	HETEROPTERA (true bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

TINGIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Pericart, J.	1983	Hémiptères Tingidae	Faune de France, Faune No 69, 620pp, Fédération Française des Sociétés de Science Naturel

TINGIDAE (lace bugs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Cimicomorpha
(an infraorder of bugs)

HETEROPTERA
(true bugs)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for TINGIDAE (lace bugs)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 75 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for TINGIDAE (lace bugs)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

TINGIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)