Hemiptera Neididae <neididae.htm> [For educational purposes only] Glossary <Principal Natural Enemy Groups > <Citations> <Home>HEMIPTERA Neididae This is a small family of thread-legged hemipteran insects in the superfamily Lygaeoidea. Species are slender and delicate with long legs and antennae. The top of the first segment of the antennae, and apices of the femora are clavate. The terminal segment of antennae is enlarged and fusiform. Antennae are four-segmented and tarsi three-segmented. The head is frequently equipped with a transverse dorsal sulcus just anterior to theocelli, and continued laterally to the hind margin of the eyes. The pronotum dorsally and laterally, and the subcoxae are covered with a raised net-like reticulation enclosing punctuations.

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HEMIPTERA, Neididae

This is a small family of thread-legged hemipteran insects in the superfamily Lygaeoidea. Species are slender and delicate with very long legs and antennae. The apex of the first segment of the antennae, and apices of the femora, are clavate; terminal segment of antennae enlarged and fusiform; antennae four-segmented and tarsi three-segmented. The head is usually equipped with a transverse dorsal sulcus immediately anterior to ocelli, and continued laterally to the hind margin of the eyes. The ronotum dorsally and laterally, and the subcoxae are covered with a raised net-like reticulation enclosing punctuations.

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