title: Cimicomorpha
text: The Cimicomorpha are an infraorder of insects in the order Hemiptera, the true bugs. The rostrum and other morphology of all members apparently is adapted to feeding on animals as their prey or hosts.  Members include bed bugs, bat bugs, assassin bugs, and pirate bugs.
  
  The two infraorders Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha have very similar characteristics, possibly as a result of the evolution of plant feeding. The key similarity that unites the Cimicomorpha and Pentatomorpha is the loss of the arolia (adhesive pads) on the pretarsi of the insects. These two infraorders comprise 90% of Heteroptera species.
  
  These insects are a part of the old, informal classification of “Geocorisae” (land bugs). Among these bugs, parental care has evolved several times. Parental care varies from brooding of the eggs by the female, to a more active form that involves protection of young against predators and the female covering the nymphs under her body.
  
  Superfamilies and families 
  BioLib includes:
  superfamily Cimicoidea Latreille, 1802
   Anthocoridae Fieber, 1837 – flower bugs, pirate bugs
   Cimicidae Latreille, 1802 – bedbugs
   Nabidae A. Costa, 1853 – damsel bugs
   Curaliidae Schuh, Weirauch & Henry, 2008
   Lasiochilidae
   Lyctocoridae Reuter, 1884
   Plokiophilidae China, 1953
   Polyctenidae Westwood, 1874 – Old World bat bugs
  
  superfamily Miroidea Hahn, 1833
   Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859
   Miridae Hahn, 1833 – plant bugs
   Ebboidae Perrichot et al., 2006
  
  superfamily Reduvioidea Latreille, 1807
   Reduviidae Latreille, 1807 – assassin and thread-legged bugs
   Ceresopseidae Becker-Migdisova, 1958
   Pachynomidae Stål, 1873
   Palaeotanyrhinidae Poinar, Brown & Kóbor, 2022†
  
  superfamily Tingoidea Laporte, 1832
   Tingidae Laporte, 1832 – lace bugs
   Hispanocaderidae Golub & Popov, 2012 †
   Ignotingidae Zhang, Golub, Popov & Shcherbakov, 2005 †
  
  superfamily Joppeicoidea Reuter, 1910
   Joppeicidae Reuter, 1910
  
  superfamily Thaumastocoroidea Kirkaldy, 1908
   Thaumastocoridae Kirkaldy, 1908 – royal palm bugs
  
  incertae sedis and other fossil taxa 
   Velocipedidae Bergroth, 1891
   Vetanthocoridae Yao et al., 2006 †
  Torirostratidae Yao, Cai, Shih & Engel 2014 †
   genus Sternocoris Popov, 1986 †
  
  References
  
  External links
   True Bugs. Planetary Biodiversity Inventory.
  
   
  Heteroptera
  Insect infraorders