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Plant Bugs
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Plant Bugs

Miridae

The Miridae are a large and diverse insect family at one time known by the taxonomic synonym Capsidae. Species in the family may be referred to as capsid bugs or "mirid bugs". Common names include plant bugs, leaf bugs, and grass bugs. It is the largest family of true bugs belonging to the suborder Heteroptera; it includes over 10,000 known species, and new ones are being described constantly. Most widely known mirids are species that are...

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7 branches of this family, most-observed first

Mirinae

subfamilyMirinae

Phylinae

subfamilyPhylinae

Orthotylinae

subfamilyOrthotylinae

Deraeocorinae

subfamilyDeraeocorinae

Bryocorinae

subfamilyBryocorinae

Cylapinae

subfamilyCylapinae

Jumping Tree Bugs

subfamilyIsometopinae

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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 53505.