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FOLLOWING Dufour1, the Heteroptera can be divided into three series: Geocorisae (land bugs), Hydrocorisae (water bugs) and Amphibicorisae (watersurface bugs). Reuter2 divided the Heteroptera into seven series. One of these, Hydrobiotica, included most of the families of Dufour's Hydrocorisae and Amphibicorisae as well as Saldidae; the Geocorisae were split into five series, and the other series contained Corixidae only. China3 followed Reuter with some modifications; he did not consider Geocorisae a homogeneous group. Börner4 recognized three primary divisions of Geocorisae: Reduvioidea, Cimicoidea and Pentatomoidea. In the first he included Ochteridae, Saldidae and Enicocephalidae and in the last the Tingidae.
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LESTON, D., PENDERGRAST, J. & SOUTHWOOD, T. Classification of the Terrestrial Heteroptera (Geocorisae). Nature 174, 91–92 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/174091b0
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