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Stink Bugs, Shield Bugs, and Allies
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Stink Bugs, Shield Bugs, and Allies

Pentatomoidea

The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera. As hemipterans, they possess a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 extant and 5 extinct). Among these are the stink bugs and shield bugs, jewel bugs, giant shield bugs, and burrower bugs.

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17 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Stink Bugs

familyPentatomidae

Jewel Bugs

familyScutelleridae

Shield Bugs

familyAcanthosomatidae

Burrowing Bugs

familyCydnidae

Tessaratomid Bugs

familyTessaratomidae

Sehiridae

familySehiridae

Plataspidae

familyPlataspidae

Ebony Bugs

familyThyreocoridae

Dinidorid Bugs

familyDinidoridae

Urostylididae

familyUrostylididae

Phloeidae

familyPhloeidae

Cyrtocoridae

familyCyrtocoridae

Canopidae

familyCanopidae

Lestoniidae

familyLestoniidae

Saileriolidae

familySaileriolidae

Megarididae

familyMegarididae

Thaumastellidae

familyThaumastellidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47743.