Microphysidae

Microphysidae
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous–Present
male Loricula sp. (<2 mm) from Cologne, Germany
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Cimicomorpha
Superfamily: Miroidea
Family: Microphysidae
Dohrn, 1859
Genera

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The Microphysidae are a very small family of true bugs, comprising only 5 extant genera.

Systematics

female Loricula sp. (<2 mm) from Cologne, Germany

Until recently, many authors considered these bugs to belong within the family Anthocoridae.[citation needed] A 2022 molecular phylogenetics study groups them with Joppeicidae in the proposed clade Microphysoidea. A 2023 study recovers them instead as relatively basal Cimiciformes.

The following genera belong to this family:

Subfamily Microphysinae

Subfamily Ciorullinae

References

  1. ↑ Ye, Fei; Kment, Petr; Rédei, Dávid; Luo, Jiu-Yang; Wang, Yan-Hui; Kuechler, Stefan M.; Zhang, Wei-Wei; Chen, Ping-Ping; Wu, Hao-Yang; Wu, Yan-Zhuo; Sun, Xiao-Ya; Ding, Lu; Wang, Yue-Ran; Xie, Qiang (2022). "Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants". Cladistics. 38 (4): 403–428. doi:10.1111/cla.12501. PMID 35349192.
  2. ↑ Jung, Sunghoon; Kim, Junggon; Balvín, Ondřej; Yamada, Kazutaka (2023). "Molecular Phylogeny of Cimicoidea (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) Revisited: Increased Taxon Sampling Reveals Evolution of Traumatic Insemination and Paragenitalia". Insects. 14 (3): 267. doi:10.3390/insects14030267. PMC 10051671. PMID 36975952.