Blissidae

The Blissidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), comprising nearly 50 genera and 400 species.[2] The group has often been treated as a subfamily of the Lygaeidae but was resurrected as a full family by Thomas Henry (1997).[3]

Blissidae
Ischnodemus sabuleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Blissidae
Stål, 1862[1]

The adult insects are elongate, typically four times as long as broad, and in some species, up to seven times. Short-winged forms are common in many species.

All the species feed on the sap of plants, mostly grasses, and most of the species live between the sheaths of leaves.[2] The most economically important species is the true chinch bug, Blissus leucopterus, a destructive pest of corn crops in the United States.

List of genera

These 54 genera of the family Blissidae are listed in the Lygaeoidea Species File:[4][2]

  • Aradacrates Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Aradademus Slater, 1967
  • Archaeodemus Slater, 1986
  • Atrademus Slater, 1967
  • Aulacoblissus Slater, 1986[5]
  • Australodemus Slater & Sweet, 1963
  • Barademus Slater, 1967
  • Barrerablissus Brailovsky, 2015
  • Blissiella Slater, 1967
  • Blissus Burmeister, 1835 (chinch bugs)
  • Bochrus Stal, 1861
  • Capodemus Slater & Sweet, 1972
  • Cavelerius Distant, 1903
  • Caveloblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1968
  • Chelochirus Spinola, 1839
  • Dentisblissus Slater, 1961
  • Dimorphopterus Stal, 1872
  • Extarademus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Extaramorphus Slater, Ashlock & Wilcox, 1969
  • Gelastoblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Hasanobochrus Ghauri, 1982
  • Heinsius Distant, 1901
  • Heteroblissus Barber, 1954
  • Howdenoblissus Stys, 1991[6]
  • Iphicrates Distant, 1904
  • Ischnocoridea Horvath, 1892
  • Ischnodemus Fieber, 1837
  • Lemuriblissus Slater, 1967
  • Lucerocoris Slater, 1968
  • Macchiademus Slater & Wilcox, 1973
  • Macropes Motschulsky, 1859
  • Merinademus Slater, 1967
  • Micaredemus Slater, 1967
  • Napoblissus Brailovsky & Barrera, 2012[7]
  • Patritiodemus Slater & Ahmad, 1971
  • Patritius Distant, 1901
  • Pirkimerus Distant, 1904
  • Praeblissus Barber, 1949
  • Praetorblissus Slater, 1966
  • Procellademus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Propinquidemus Slater, 1986
  • Pseudoblissus Slater, 1979
  • Ramadademus Slater, 1967
  • Reticulatodemus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Riggiella Kormilev, 1949
  • Scansidemus Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Scintillademus Slater, 1968
  • Slaterellus Drake & Davis, 1959
  • Spalacocoris Stal, 1874
  • Talpoblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1973
  • Toonglasa Distant, 1893[8]
  • Tympanoblissus Dellapé & Minghetti, 2020
  • Wheelerodemus Henry & Sweet, 2015
  • Xenoblissus Barber, 1954

References
  1. Stål, C. (1862). "Synopsis Coreidum et Lygaeidum Sueciae". Öfversigt Af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 19. p. 212.
  2. Slater, J.A. (1979). "The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae)". Bulletin of the AMNH. 165 (1): 1–180. hdl:2246/1076.
  3. Henry, T.J. (1997). "Phylogenetic analysis of family groups within the infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the Lygaeoidea". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90 (3): 275–301. doi:10.1093/aesa/90.3.275.
  4. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2021). "family Blissidae Stål, 1862". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2021-10-04.
  5. Slater, J.A. (1986). "Aulacoblissus, a New Genus of Micropterous Blissinae from Venezuela (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)". Florida Entomologist. 69 (4): 661–665. doi:10.2307/3495210. JSTOR 3495210.
  6. Štys, P. (1991). "First apterous genus and species of Lygaeidae: Blissinae (Heteroptera)". Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca. 88 (3–4): 265–271.
  7. Brailovsky, H.; Barrera, E. (2012). "A remarkable new Micropterous Blissidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Lygaeoidea) from South America". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 59 (1): 43–45.
  8. Slater, J.A.; Brailovsky, H. (1983). "Review of the Neotropical Genus Toonglasa (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae)" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 76 (3): 523–535. doi:10.1093/aesa/76.3.523. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2014-12-16.


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