Insecta - Hemiptera - Lygaeidae
Parent taxon: Lygaeoidea according to Y. A. Popov 2019
See also Cassis and Schuh 2010, Park and Downing 2001, Statz and Wagner 1950, Szwedo 2018 and Wappler 2003
Sister taxa: Artheneidae, Berytidae, Blissidae, Geocoridae, Heterogastridae, Malcidae, Pachygronthidae, Pyrrhocoris rottensis, Rhyparochromidae
Subtaxa: Coptochromus Coriopachys Cryptochromus Cyminae Exitelus Leipolygaeus Lithochromus Lygaeinae Lygaeites Lygaenocorinae Macrocranum Necrochromus Nysius stratus Nysius terrae Nysius tritus Nysius vecula Nysius vinctus Oligacanchus Orsillinae Procrophius Prolygaeus
Type: Lygaeus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Blancan of United States (1: Texas collection)
• Pliocene of Germany (1)
• Miocene of Austria (1), China (1), Croatia (3), Czechia (1), Germany (5), Italy (1), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (2), United States (1: Montana)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (6), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of China (1), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Kazakhstan (1)
Total: 43 collections including 84 occurrences