Family

Lygaeidae (Seed bugs)

Lygaeus kalmii. Photo: no rights reserved

The Lygaeidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), with some 60 genera in six subfamilies. The family includes the insects commonly known as milkweed bugs, and also some of those known as seed bugs. The family used to be vastly larger, as numerous former subfamilies have been removed and given independent family status, including Artheneidae, Blissidae, Cryptorhamphidae, Cymidae, Geocoridae, Heterogastridae, Ninidae, Oxycarenidae, Pachygronthidae, and Rhyparochromidae, which together constituted well over half of the former…

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Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
  - Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
    - Subphylum: Hexapoda (Hexapods)
      - Class: Insecta (Insects)
        Subclass: Pterygota (Winged and once-winged insects)
        Order: Hemiptera (True bugs, hoppers, aphids, and allies)
        Suborder: Heteroptera (True bugs)
        Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha (Pentatomomorph bugs)
        Superfamily: Lygaeoidea (Seed bugs and allies)
        Family: Lygaeidae (Seed bugs)
        Subfamily: Lygaeinae (2)
        Subfamily: Orsillinae (1)

Subtaxa

Subfamily: Lygaeinae

Subfamily: Orsillinae

Family

Lygaeidae (Seed bugs)

Subtaxa

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