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Stemmocryptidae

Stemmocryptidae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Stemmocryptidae
Genus: Stemmocrypta
Species:
S. antennata
Binomial name
Stemmocrypta antennata
Štys, 1983

Stemmocryptidae is a very small family of bugs in the order Hemiptera, known from the ʻSisimangum village in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.[1] Only one species in one genus is known, Stemmocrypta antennata.[2]

The family is currently documented by specimens collected during a single UV light trapping.[3]

  1. ^ Kment, Petr; Baňař, Petr; Bílý, Svatopluk; Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique; Polhemus, Dan A.; Schuh, Randall T. (2019). "In memoriam of Professor Pavel Štys (1933–2018): Biography, memories, bibliography and list of described taxa". Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae. 59 (2): 351–379. doi:10.2478/aemnp-2019-0028.
  2. ^ Štys, P. (1983) A new family of Heteroptera with dipsocoromorphan affinities from Papua New Guinea. Acta Entomologica Bohemoslovaca 80(4): 256–292.
  3. ^ "Stemmocryptidae". Heteropteran Systematics Lab. UC Riverside. Retrieved 13 January 2025.

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