Plokiophilidae
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| Plokiophilidae Temporal range: | |
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| Plokiophiloides bannaensis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Cimicomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Cimicoidea |
| Family: | Plokiophilidae China, 1953 |
The Plokiophilidae or web-lovers are a small group of insects belonging to the true bugs (Heteroptera). Nine genera (one fossil, from Baltic amber) and 20 species are currently known. [1]
Plokiophilidae are small (1.2-3.0 mm length) and vaguely similar to Anthocoridae.[1]
Life history
Plokiophilidae inhabit almost exclusively spider webs of spiders from the suborder Mygalomorphae or Araneomorphae, or the webs of Embioptera.[1][2]
The genera Plokiophila, Plokiophiloides, Lipokophila and Embiophila are known to copulate through traumatic insemination.[2]
