Family Lygaeidae Schilling 1829 (milkweed bug)

Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae

Parent taxon: Lygaeoidea according to Y. A. Popov 2019

See also Cassis and Schuh 2010, Park and Downing 2001, Statz and Wagner 1950, Szwedo 2018 and Wappler 2003

Sister taxa: Artheneidae, Berytidae, Blissidae, Geocoridae, Heterogastridae, Malcidae, Pachygronthidae, Pyrrhocoris rottensis, Rhyparochromidae

Subtaxa: Coptochromus Coriopachys Cryptochromus Cyminae Exitelus Leipolygaeus Lithochromus Lygaeinae Lygaeites Lygaenocorinae Macrocranum Necrochromus Nysius stratus Nysius terrae Nysius tritus Nysius vecula Nysius vinctus Oligacanchus Orsillinae Procrophius Prolygaeus

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Type: Lygaeus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Blancan of United States (1: Texas collection)

• Pliocene of Germany (1)

• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), Croatia (3), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (5), Italy (1), Spain (1)

• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2), United States (1: Montana)

• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of China (1), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (1)

• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (1)

Total: 43 collections including 84 occurrences

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