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Checklist of the Heteroptera: Heteroptera



This work is dedicated to my husband Jos Bruers.

Preamble

Acalypta parvula (FALLÉN, 1807) dorsal.
Courtesy of Henderickx H. (2000).
This checklist has been prepared by Gaby Viskens, member of the Royal Entomological Society of Antwerp, Belgium. The purpose of this checklist is to resolve synonymy related problems. Typical example: given a taxon name, verify whether or not it is currently valid and if not what is its currently valid name.

This is the second provisional edition that is far from completion and it contains still a lot of mistakes. Any comments, remarks, suggestions, etc to improve the quality of this list are welcome at Gaby Viskens.

Since the first release of this list on 1995.10.16 at Gordon Ramel`s entomological web site, the list has been upgraded considerably with three of the five volumes (under construction) of the Catalogue of the Heteroptera Palaearctic Region edited by Berend Aukema & Christian Rieger. The Lygaeidae are improve white the tree volume from Jean Péricart and the Coreoidea with the work of Pierre Moulet. It has become that large that it was necessary to split it into several sublists.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank
Dr Patrick Grootaert and the staff members of the Department of Entomology of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences for the logistic support,
Dr Berend Aukema for his advice on nomenclatural and taxonomic issues,
Dr Franck Bameul for his contribution,
Dr Georges Coulon and Frederic Chérot for their encouragements,
Hans Henderickx for giving permission to use the photograph of Acalypta parvula,
Dr Gordon Ramel for webenabling the first version of this checklist,
Jos Bruers for his moral support,
Frans Janssens for the technical support in realising this work.

Introduction

Morphology (2002).
The Hemiptera occupy an enormous range of habitats and displays as wide a variety of lifestyles as any other insect order. Forest, meadows, moors and marshes all have characteristic hemipteran faunas and so do ponds, streams, bare soil and rockpools. In the exploitation of plant sap as a food source, and of the surface film of water as a habitat, they are unequalled by any other group.

Of the three suborders of Hemiptera, only Heteroptera possess a gula. This is an area of cuticle closing the head capsule ventrally behind the mouthparts. The effect is to bring the rostrum forwards, allowing it greater freedom of movement than is possible in Auchenorrhyncha and Sternorrhyncha. The greater versatility of the mouthparts enables Heteroptera to exploit a greater variety of foodstuffs, including animal tissues. In most adult Heteroptera the wings, which are held flat over the body at rest, comprise a tough, opaque, basal part (the corium) and a thin, transparent or translucent apical membrane in the where the two fore wings overlap. The transition between the two areas is abrupt. Scent glands with conspicuous external openings are characteristic of Heteroptera (Dolling, 1991).



Systematic list



Superregnum Eukaryotae
Regnum Animalia Linnæus, 1758
Subregnum Eumetazoa
Phylum Arthropoda Latreille, 1829
Subphylum Uniramia Snodgrass, 1935
Superclassis Hexapoda Latreille, 1825
Classis Insecta Linnæus, 1758
Subclassis Dicondylia, sensu Gullan & Cranston, 1994
Infrasubclassis Pterygota Lang, 1889, sensu Pomorski & Skarzynski, 1991
Superordo Neoptera Subordo Heteroptera
Infrasubordo Enicocephalomorpha Stichel, 1955
Infrasubordo Dipsocoromorpha Miyamoto, 1961
Infrasubordo Nepomorpha Popov, 1968
Infrasubordo Gerromorpha Popov, 1971
Infrasubordo Leptopodomorpha Popov, 1971
Infrasubordo Cimicomorpha
Superfamilia Cimicoidea Latreille, 1802
Superfamilia Miroidea Hahn, 1833
Familia Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859
Familia Miridae Hahn, 1833
Subfamilia Isometopinae Fieber, 1860 Subfamilia Psallopinae Schuh, 1976 Subfamilia Cylapinae Kirkaldy, 1903 Subfamilia Bryocorinae Bäerensprung, 1860 Subfamilia Deraeocorinae Douglas & Scott, 1865 Subfamilia Mirinae Hahn, 1831 Subfamilia Orthotylinae Van Duzee, 1916 Subfamilia Phylinae Douglas & Scott, 1865
Superfamilia Thaumastocoroidea
Superfamilia Joppeicoidea Reuter, 1910
Superfamilia Tingoidea Laporta, 1832
Superfamilia Reduvioidea
Infrasubordo Pentatomomorpha
Superfamilia Aradoidea Reuter
Superfamilia Piesmatoidea
Superfamilia Coreoidea
Superfamilia Lygaeoidea
Superfamilia Pentatomoidea

References