Stemmocryptidae
| Stemmocryptidae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Stemmocryptidae |
| Genus: | Stemmocrypta |
| Species: | S. antennata
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| Binomial name | |
| Stemmocrypta antennata Štys, 1983
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Stemmocryptidae is a very small family of bugs in the order Hemiptera, known from the ʻSisimangum village in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.[1] Only one species in one genus is known, Stemmocrypta antennata.[2]
The family is currently documented by specimens collected during a single UV light trapping.[3]
Morphology
[edit]S. antennata is elongate, with small eyes. The pronotal collar is absent. Among other peculiar features are a reduced proepimeron compared to other Dipsocoromorpha, a scent evaporatory structure, a distal expasion of the protibia, a membranous dorsal wall of the pygophore.[4]
Phylogeny
[edit]A 2021 analysis suggests Stemmocrpytidae is the sister group of all other Dipsocoromorpha.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Kment, Petr; Baňař, Petr; Bílý, Svatopluk; Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique; Polhemus, Dan A.; Schuh, Randall T. (2019). "In memoriam of Professor Pavel Štys (1933–2018): Biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 59 (2): 351–379. doi:10.2478/aemnp-2019-0028.
- ^ Štys, P. (1983) A new family of Heteroptera with dipsocoromorphan affinities from Papua New Guinea. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 80(4): 256–292.
- ^ "Stemmocryptidae". Heteropteran Systematics Lab. UC Riverside. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
- ^ a b Knyshov, Alexander; Weirauch, Christiane; Hoey-Chamberlain, Rochelle (2021). "Phylogenetic relationships and revised classification of the true bug infraorder Dipsocoromorpha (Insecta: Hemiptera: Heteroptera)". Cladistics. 37 (3): 248–275. doi:10.1111/cla.12435. PMID 34478197.
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