Blissidae

The Blissidae are a family in the Hemiptera (true bugs), comprising nearly 50 genera and 400 species.[2] The group has often been treated as a subfamily of the Lygaeidae, but was resurrected as a full family by Thomas Henry (1997).[3]

Blissidae
Ischnodemus sabuleti
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Infraorder: Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Family: Blissidae
Stål, 1862[1]

The adult insects are elongate, typically 4 times as long as broad and in some species 6 or even 7 times. Short-winged forms are common in many species.

All the species feed on the sap (rather than the seeds) of plants, mostly grasses, and most of the species live between the sheaths of leaves.[2] The most economically important species is the North American Chinch Bug Blissus leucopterus, a destructive pest of maize crops in the United States.

List of Genera

These 54 genera belong to the family Blissidae, primarily according to the Lygaeoidea Species File.[4][5][2]

  • Aradacrates Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Aradademus Slater, 1967
  • Archaeodemus Slater, 1986
  • Atrademus Slater, 1967
  • Aulacoblissus Slater, 1986[6]
  • Australodemus Slater & Sweet, 1963
  • Barademus Slater, 1967
  • Barrerablissus Brailovsky, 2015
  • Blissiella Slater, 1967
  • Blissus Burmeister, 1835 (chinch bugs)
  • Bochrus Stal, 1861
  • Capodemus Slater & Sweet, 1972
  • Cavelerius Distant, 1903
  • Caveloblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1968
  • Chelochirus Spinola, 1839
  • Dentisblissus Slater, 1961
  • Dimorphopterus Stal, 1872
  • Extarademus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Extaramorphus Slater, Ashlock & Wilcox, 1969
  • Gelastoblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Geoblissus Hidaka, 1959
  • Hasanobochrus Ghauri, 1982
  • Heinsius Distant, 1901
  • Heteroblissus Barber, 1954
  • Howdenoblissus Stys, 1991[7]
  • Iphicrates Distant, 1904
  • Ischnocoridea Horvath, 1892
  • Ischnodemus Fieber, 1837
  • Lemuriblissus Slater, 1967
  • Lucerocoris Slater, 1968
  • Macchiademus Slater & Wilcox, 1973
  • Macropes Motschulsky, 1859
  • Merinademus Slater, 1967
  • Micaredemus Slater, 1967
  • Napoblissus Brailovsky & Barrera, 2012[8]
  • Patritiodemus Slater & Ahmad, 1971
  • Patritius Distant, 1901
  • Pirkimerus Distant, 1904
  • Praeblissus Barber, 1949
  • Praetorblissus Slater, 1966
  • Procellademus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Propinquidemus Slater, 1986
  • Pseudoblissus Slater, 1979
  • Ramadademus Slater, 1967
  • Reticulatodemus Slater & Wilcox, 1966
  • Riggiella Kormilev, 1949
  • Scansidemus Slater & Wilcox, 1969
  • Scintillademus Slater, 1968
  • Slaterellus Drake & Davis, 1959
  • Spalacocoris Stal, 1874
  • Talpoblissus Slater & Wilcox, 1973
  • Toonglasa Distant, 1893[9]
  • Wheelerodemus Henry & Sweet, 2015
  • Xenoblissus Barber, 1954


References
  1. Stål, C. (1862). "Synopsis Coreidum et Lygaeidum Sueciae". Öfversigt Af Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar. 19. p. 212.
  2. Slater, J.A. (1979). "The systematics, phylogeny, and zoogeography of the Blissinae of the world (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae)". Bulletin of the AMNH. 165 (1): 1–180. hdl:2246/1076.
  3. Henry, T.J. (1997). "Phylogenetic analysis of family groups within the infraorder Pentatomomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), with emphasis on the Lygaeoidea". Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 90 (3): 275–301. doi:10.1093/aesa/90.3.275.
  4. Dellapé, Pablo M.; Henry, Thomas J. (2019). "family Blissidae Stål, 1862". Lygaeoidea Species File. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  5. "Blissidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-06-19.
  6. Slater, J.A. (1986). "Aulacoblissus, a New Genus of Micropterous Blissinae from Venezuela (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae)". Florida Entomologist. 69 (4): 661–665. doi:10.2307/3495210. JSTOR 3495210.
  7. Štys, P. (1991). "First apterous genus and species of Lygaeidae: Blissinae (Heteroptera)". Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca. 88 (3–4): 265–271.
  8. Brailovsky, H.; Barrera, E. (2012). "A remarkable new Micropterous Blissidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Lygaeoidea) from South America". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 59 (1): 43–45.
  9. Slater, J.A.; Brailovsky, H. (1983). "Review of the Neotropical Genus Toonglasa (Hemiptera, Lygaeidae)" (PDF). Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 76 (3): 523–535. doi:10.1093/aesa/76.3.523. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-22. Retrieved 2014-12-16.


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