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Welcome to Superfamily Cimicoidea!

Cimicoidea - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Hemiptera > Suborder Heteroptera > Infraorder Cimicomorpha > Superfamily Cimicoidea

(From Wikipedia) Cimicoidea is the name of a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha, including bedbugs and related families.

FACT: These bugs have also developed some parental care, with females brooding their children, or occasionally hiding them beneath themselves!

Currently discovered: 2/9 Families

Family

  1. Cimicidae - Bed Bugs
  2. Anthocoridae - Minute Pirate Bugs