Cimicoidea

Polyctenidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Cimicomorpha
Superfamily: Cimicoidea
Jordan (1912) and Ferris & Usinger (1939)
Families

Cimicidae
Polyctenidae

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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