Cimicomorpha (Schuh and Stys, 1991)

Grazia, Jocelia, Schuh, Randall T. & Wheeler, Ward C., 2008, Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera), Cladistics 24, pp. 932-976 : 963

Cimicomorpha

Our sample of Cimicomorpha in this analysis is extremely limited and designed only to contribute to the range of outgroup morphology for the Pentatomomor-

pha. As such, it appears that the morphological and molecular data are not sufficient to make judgments concerning the monophyly of the group. That issue was previously addressed by Schuh and Štys (1991) and is being revisited by R. T. Schuh et al. (in press) on the basis of a larger taxon sample and a robust sample of morphological and molecular characters.