Full reference: Y. A. Popov. 1971. Historical development of the infraorder Nepomorpha (Heteroptera). Akademiya Nauk SSSR, Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 129:1-228
Parent taxon: Heteroptera according to K. P. Johnson et al. 2018
See also Criscione and Grimaldi 2017, Popov et al. 1994, Szwedo 2018, Whalley 1985 and Zhang et al. 2011
Sister taxa: Anacoloptera, Berytopsis, Cimicomorpha, Corixa pullus, Cryptocerata, Dipsocoromorpha, Duncanovelia, Enicocephalomorpha, Eocimicidae, Euheteroptera, Galerucites, Galgulidae, Geocorisae, Gerromorpha, Gymnocerata, Hadrocoridae, Hebeicoris, Hydrocorisae, Leptopodomorpha, Liasocoris, Nepa atavina, Pentatomomorpha, Sinanabis, Sinocoris, Sinovelia, Sphongophoriella, Xishanidae
Subtaxa: Corixoidea Gelastocoroidea Morrisonnepa Naucoroidea Nepoidea Notonectoidea Ochteroidea Pleoidea Pterocimicidae
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