Pyrrhocoroidea

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Pyrrhocoroidea
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Firebug Pyrrhocoris apterus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Pyrrhocoroidea
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Families

Pyrrhocoridae - red bugs
Largidae - bordered bugs

Pyrrhocoroidea is a superfamily of true bugs in the infraorder Pentatomomorpha. [1]

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Largid bugs mating

References

  1. Hemala, Vladimír; Kment, Petr; Malenovský, Igor (2020-01-01). "The comparative morphology of adult pregenital abdominal ventrites and trichobothria in Pyrrhocoroidea (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Pentatomomorpha)" . Zoologischer Anzeiger. 284: 88–117. Bibcode:2020ZooAn.284...88H. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2019.11.006. ISSN   0044-5231. S2CID   213952214.