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True Bugs

Heteroptera

The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative, since the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed "bugs" among the Hemiptera. "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive sub-group Enicocephalomorpha have completely membranous wings.

Cimicomorpha

The rostrum and other morphology of all members apparently is adapted to feeding on animals as their prey or hosts. Members include bed bugs, bat bugs, assassin bugs, and pirate bugs.

Gerromorpha

Nepomorpha

Pentatomomorpha

It unites such animals as the  stink bugs (Pentatomidae), flat bugs (Aradidae), seed bugs (Lygaeidae and Rhyparochromidae), etc. They are closely related to the Cimicomorpha

IF: Cimicomorpha; SF: Miroidea, F:Miridae

Miridae

IF: Cimicomorpha; SF: Reduvioidea, F:Reduviidae

Reduviidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Coreoidea, F:Alydidae 

Alydidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Coreoidea, F:Coreidae 

Coreidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Coreoidea; F:Rhopalidae

Rophalidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Lygaeoidae

Lygaeoidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pentatomoidea; F:Dinidoridae

Dinidoridae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pentatomoidea; F:Pentatomidae

Pentatomidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pentatomoidea; F:Plataspidae

Plataspidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pentatomoidea; F:Scutelleridae

Scutellaridae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pentatomoidea; F:Tessaratomidae; Urostylididae

Tessaratomidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pyrrhocoroidea; F:Largidae

Largidae

IF: Pentatomomorpha ; SF: Pyrrhocoroidea; F:Pyrrhocoridae

Pyrrhocoridae
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