Pentatomoidea , Bonatto

Pentatomoidea Our study supports the monophyly of the Pentatomoidea on the basis of the following characters (Figs 42, 43, 53 and 54): (i) scutellum reaching or surpassing an imaginary transverse line crossing the connexivum at apical angles of 3rd abdominal segment (161); (ii) claval commissure obsolete, claval apices close together but not contiguous (172); (iii) abdominal trichobothria lateral on urosternites II–VII, usually 2 + 2 or at least 1 + 1 (342); and (iv) tergite VIII covering tergite IX in females (431). This character suite is in close agreement with the views of earlier authors (see Schuh and Štys, 1991). In Figure 44, under implied weighting, the Pentatomoidea is not monophyletic, and neither is the group supported by the characters listed above.Published as part of Grazia, Jocelia, Schuh, Randall T. & Wheeler, Ward C., 2008, Phylogenetic relationships of family groups in Pentatomoidea based on morphology and DNA sequences (Insecta: Heteroptera), pp. 932-976 in Cladistics 24 on page 963, DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00224.x, http://zenodo.org/record/396859