Leptopodomorpha

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Shore bugs and allies
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Saldula palustris
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Superorder: Condylognatha
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Leptopodomorpha

Leptopodomorpha is an infraorder of insects in the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Leptopodomorpha is an infraorder of the order Heteroptera that contains more than 380 species. These small insects are also called shore bugs, or spiny shore bugs. As their name suggests, shore bugs range from being intertidal, to living near streams and lakes. Four families belong to this infraorder, the largest of which is Saldidae with about 350 species, compared to about 30 in Leptopodidae, and only 5 and 1 in Omaniidae and Aepophilidae respectively. [1] Saldidae are known in particular for their jumping ability.

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Families

Two superfamilies are recognised:

Leptopodoidea

  1. Corallocoris Cobben, 1970 – SE Asia, Australia, Oceania, Japan
  2. Omania : includes Omania coleoptrata Horváth, 1915 - Oman

Saldoidea

References

  1. ↑ J.H. Thorp; D.C. Rogers, eds. (2015). Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Ecology and General Biology. Vol. 1 (4 ed.). Elsevier. pp. 954–955. ISBN   978-0-12-385026-3.
  2. ↑ Ryzhkova, Olga V.; Coram, Robert A. (June 2016). "Archegocimicidae (Insecta: Heteroptera) from the Purbeck Limestone Group (Lower Cretaceous: Berriasian) of southern England". Cretaceous Research. 61: 199–208. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2016.01.008.
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