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Miroidea is a superfamily of
true bug Hemiptera (; ) is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from to arou ...
s in the order Hemiptera. There are about 7 families and more than 15,000 described species in Miroidea.


Families

These seven families belong to the superfamily Miroidea: * Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859 *
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 th ...
(plant bugs) * Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908 *
Tingidae The Tingidae are a family of very small () insects in the order Hemiptera that are commonly referred to as lace bugs. This group is distributed worldwide with about 2,000 described species. They are called lace bugs because the pronotum and for ...
(lace bugs) * †
Berstidae ''Bersta'' is an extinct genus of hemipteran in the monotypic family Berstidae. It is known from two species found in the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar. The external morphology suggests that the genus were beetle mimics. Etymology ...
Tihelka et al., 2020 * † Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006 * † Hispanocaderidae Golub and Popov, 2012 * † Ignotingidae Zhang et al., 2005


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Further reading

* * * * * Cimicomorpha Hemiptera superfamilies {{cimicomorpha-stub