Heteroptera (True Bugs)

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About Heteroptera (True Bugs)

This is a group for insect photography of "True Bugs" in the suborder Heteroptera!

I hope to create this group for flickr members around the world to post their great photos of the diversity within this group. It would be great if members will give observational notes with their photos (host plant/animal, geographic location, any behavioural notes) and also I hope to form an online community for trying to identify these insects to the lowest determination possible.


I am a novice with this group, so it will be an interesting journey along the way.

Thanks for joining and looking forward to seeing your photos!


There is a diversity of Families within the Heteroptera. Here are some examples:

Family Acanthosomatidae - Shield Bugs
Red-Cross Shield Bug (Elasmostethus cruciatus)

Copyright © 2008 Ralph C. Baslow

Family Alydidae - Broad-headed Bugs
Family Anthocoridae - Minute Pirate Bugs
Family Aradidae - Flat Bugs
Family Belostomatidae - Giant Water Bugs
Giant Toe-Biter (Lethocerus sp.)

Dieno

Family Berytidae - Stilt Bugs
Family Blissidae
Family Ceratocombidae
Family Cimicidae - Bed and Bat Bugs
Family Coreidae - Leaffooted Bugs
Family Corixidae - Water Boatmen
Corixa punctata

Piet Spaans

Family Cydnidae - Burrowing Bugs
Family Cymidae
Family Enicocephalidae - Unique-headed Bugs
Family Gelastocoridae - Toad Bugs
Family Geocoridae - Big-eyed Bugs
Family Gerridae - Water Striders
Family Hebridae - Velvet Water Bugs
Family Hydrometridae - Water Measurers
Family Largidae - Bordered Plant Bugs
Family Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs
Family Mesoveliidae - Water Treaders
Family Miridae - Plant Bugs
Family Nabidae - Damsel Bugs
Family Naucoridae - Creeping Water Bugs
Family Nepidae - Waterscorpions
Family Ninidae
Family Notonectidae - Backswimmers
Family Ochteridae - Velvety Shore Bugs
Family Pachygronthidae
Family Pentatomidae - Stink Bugs
Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina)

Richard Bartz

Family Phymatidae - Ambush Bugs
Family Piesmatidae - Ash-gray Leaf Bugs
Family Pleidae - Pygmy Backswimmers
Family Pyrrhocoridae - Red Bugs
Family Reduviidae - Assassin Bugs
Family Rhopalidae - Scentless Plant Bugs
Boxelder Bug (Boisea trivittata)

Tom Murphy VII

Family Rhyparochromidae - Dirt-colored Seed Bugs
Family Saldidae - Shore Bugs
Family Scutelleridae - Shield-backed Bugs
Family Thyreocoridae - Negro Bugs
Family Tingidae - Lace Bugs
Family Veliidae - Broad-shouldered Water Striders