The Microphysidae are a very small family of true bugs, comprising only 5 extant genera.
| Microphysidae Temporal range:
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| male Loricula sp. (<2 mm) from Cologne, Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Cimicomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Miroidea |
| Family: | Microphysidae Dohrn, 1859 |
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Systematics
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Until recently, many authors considered these bugs to belong within the family Anthocoridae.[citation needed] A 2022 molecular phylogenetics study groups them with Joppeicidae in the proposed clade Microphysoidea.[1] A 2023 study recovers them instead as relatively basal Cimiciformes.[2]
The following genera belong to this family:
Subfamily Microphysinae
- Genus Chinaola Blatchley
- Genus Loricula Curtis (= Microphysa)
- Genus Mallochiola Bergroth
- Genus Myrmedobia Bärensprung
- Genus †Myrmericula Popov
- Genus †Popovophysa McKellar & Engel 2011, Canadian amber, Campanian
- Genus †Tytthophysa Popov & Herczek 2009 Baltic amber, Eocene
Subfamily Ciorullinae
- Genus Ciorulla Péricart
References
edit- ^ Ye, Fei; Kment, Petr; Rédei, Dávid; Luo, Jiu-Yang; Wang, Yan-Hui; Kuechler, Stefan M.; Zhang, Wei-Wei; Chen, Ping-Ping; Wu, Hao-Yang; Wu, Yan-Zhuo; Sun, Xiao-Ya; Ding, Lu; Wang, Yue-Ran; Xie, Qiang (2022). "Diversification of the phytophagous lineages of true bugs (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera) shortly after that of the flowering plants". Cladistics. 38 (4): 403–428. doi:10.1111/cla.12501. PMID 35349192.
- ^ Jung, Sunghoon; Kim, Junggon; Balvín, Ondřej; Yamada, Kazutaka (2023). "Molecular Phylogeny of Cimicoidea (Heteroptera: Cimicomorpha) Revisited: Increased Taxon Sampling Reveals Evolution of Traumatic Insemination and Paragenitalia". Insects. 14 (3): 267. doi:10.3390/insects14030267. PMC 10051671. PMID 36975952.
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