Pedigree: Superfamily Pentatomoidea (shield bugs, chust bugs & stink bugs)

The PEDIGREE of

Superfamily Pentatomoidea (shield bugs, chust bugs & stink bugs)

"Child(ren)": Family Pentatomidae (stink bugs) ; Acanthosomatidae (shield bugs :: 46 genera : 184 species) ; Canopidae ; Corimelaenidae (incl. Thyreocorinae : ebony bugs) ; Cydnidae (burrowing bugs :: 120 genera : 765 species) ; Dinidoridae (16 genera 65 : species) ; Lestoniidae (false tortoise beetle : 2 species) ; Megarididae (16 species) ; Parastrachiidae (bright red/black maternal-care bugs :: 2 genera) ; Phloeidae (mottled maternal-care :: 2 genera : 3 species) ; Plataspidae (59 genera : 560 species) ; Scutelleridae (jewel bugs :: 81 genera : 450 species) ; Tessaratomidae (giant shield bugs :: 55 genera : 240 species) ; Urostylididae (11 genera : 170 species) ; poss. Thaumastellidae (3 species)

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														/	-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa +	====> [ 77]
													/	-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
												/	-- Phylum Arthropoda
											/	-- Subphylum Tetraconata
											/		/ or: Superclass Panhexapoda in Infraphylum Atelocerata
										/	-- Epiclass Hexapoda
									/	-- Class Insecta
								/	-- Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
							/	-- Infraclass Neoptera
						/	-- Superorder Exopterygota
						/		/ or: prob. not Eumetabola (clade incl. Endopterygota)
					/	-- Grandorder Paraneoptera (Hemipteroids)
				/	-- Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Aphids, etc.)
			/	-- Suborder Prosorrhyncha
		/	-- Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
	/	-- Infraorder Pentatomomorpha (plant bugs, stink bugs, seed bugs & kin)
/	-- Parvorder Trichophora
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- Superfamily Pentatomoidea (shield bugs, chust bugs & stink bugs)

``3-Great Grandchild:'' Forest bug