Cimicoidea
Polyctenidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Infraorder: | Cimicomorpha |
Superfamily: | Cimicoidea Jordan (1912) and Ferris & Usinger (1939) |
Families | |
Cimicoidea is the name of a superfamily of insects belonging to the infraorder Cimicomorpha that have a mandible modified as a straw-like rostrum used for feeding on animals as their host or prey.
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