list of true bugs

The order Heteroptera comprises the so-called true bugs. This is an alphabetically ordered list of true bugs.

• assassin bugs (family Reduviidae)

  • ambush bugs (subfamily Phymatinae)
• backswimmers (family Notonectidae)
• bat bugs (family Polyctenidae)
• bedbugs (family Cimicidae)
• coreid bugs (family Coreidae)
• creeping water bugs (family Naucoridae)
• damsel bugs (family Nabidae)
• flat bugs (family Aradidae)
• flower bugs (family Anthocoridae)
• giant water bugs (family Belostomatidae)
• lace bugs (family Tingidae)
• marsh treaders (family Hydrometridae)
• plant bugs (families Lygaeidae and Miridae)

  • chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus)
  • lygaeid bugs (family Lygaeidae)
• red bugs (family Pyrrhocoridae)
• shore bugs (family Saldidae)
• smaller water striders (family Veliidae)
• stilt bugs (family Berytidae)
• stinkbugs (family Pentatomidae)

  • harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica)
• toad bugs (family Gelastocoridae)
• unique-headed bugs (family Enicocephalidae)
• velvet water bugs (family Hebridae)
• velvety shore bugs (family Ochteridae)
• water boatmen (family Corixidae)
• water striders (family Gerridae)
• water treaders (family Mesoveliidae)