Dipsocoridae

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Dipsocoromorpha
Superfamilia: Dipsocoroidea

Familia: Dipsocoridae
Genera (2): Cryptostemma – Pachycoleus

Check (1): Raunocoris
Name

Dipsocoridae Dohrn, 1859. Type genus: Dipsocoris Haliday, 1855 [=Cryptostemma Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835]
Synonymy

Cryptostemmatidae McAtee & Malloch, 1925. Type genus: Cryptostemma Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835.

Dipsocoridae are a family of heteropteran bugs known as jumping ground bugs. There are about 30 widely distributed species which are placed in three genera. Fossils from Eocene amber have also been placed in the family.[1]

The antennae have four segments, the basal two being short and thick while the distal ones are slender appearing like a brush with long hairs with the third segment thickened at the base. They have ocelli and the three segmented beak is long. The head is horizontal and there are no prominent forecoxal cavities.[2]
Genera

BioLib includes:

Alpagut Kiyak, 1995 (synonyms Raunocoris, Harpago) (Palaearctic),
Cryptostemma Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835 (worldwide),
Pachycoleus Fieber, 1860 (Palaearctic, Oriental and Neotropical).

European species

Fauna Europaea[3] includes:

Alpagut castanovitreus (Linnavuori, 1951) (= Raunocoris castaneovitreus), Balkans, east Palaearctic
Alpagut medius (Rey, 1888) (= Raunocoris medius), Balkans, France and Ukraine
Cryptostemma alienum Herrich-Schäffer, 1835,: mainland Europe, British Isles, Middle East
Cryptostemma carpaticum Josifov, 1967: Poland and Slovakia
Cryptostemma remanei Josifov, 1964: France, Italy, Middle East
Cryptostemma roubali Josifov, 1967: France only
Pachycoleus pusillimum (J. Sahlberg, 1870): Spain, Scandinavia, Russia
Pachycoleus waltli Fieber, 1860: northern Europe including the British Isles, France through to Russia.

References

Hartung, Viktor; Garrouste, Romain; Nel, André (2017). "The first fossil Dipsocoridae found in the early Eocene amber of France (Hemiptera: Heteroptera)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16 (7): 715–720. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2017.05.008.
Comstock, John Henry (1920). An introduction to entomology (3 ed.). Ithaca, N.Y.: Comstock Publishing Co. p. 374.
"Dipsocoridae Fauna Europaea". fauna-eu.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.