More than 95% of phytophagous true bug (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) species belong to four superfamilies: Miroidea (Cimicomorpha), Pentatomoidea, Coreoidea, and Lygaeoidea (all Pentatomomorpha). These iconic groups of highly diverse, overwhelmingly phytophagous insects include several economically prominent agricultural and silvicultural pest species, though their evolutionary history has not yet been well resolved. In particular, superfamily- and family-level phylogenetic relationships of these four lineages have remained controversial, and the divergence times of some crucial nodes for phytophagous true bugs have hitherto been little known, which hampers a better understanding of the evolutionary processes and patterns of phytophagous insects. In the present study, we used 150 species and concatenated nuclear and mitochondrial protein-coding genes and rRNA genes to infer the phylogenetic relationships within the Terheteroptera (Cimicomorpha + Pentatomomorpha) and estimated their divergence times. Our results support the monophyly of Cimicomorpha, Pentatomomorpha, Miroidea, Pentatomoidea, Pyrrhocoroidea, Coreoidea, and Lygaeoidea. The phylogenetic relationships across phytophagous lineages are largely congruent at deep nodes across the analyses based on different datasets and tree-reconstructing methods with just a few exceptions. Estimated divergence times and ancestral state reconstructions for feeding habit indicate that phytophagous true bugs explosively radiated in the Early Cretaceous-shortly after the angiosperm radiation-with the subsequent diversification of the most speciose clades (Mirinae, Pentatomidae, Coreinae, and Rhyparochromidae) in the Late Cretaceous.

Department of Animal Ecology 2 University of Bayreuth Bayreuth Germany

Department of Ecology and Evolution School of Life Sciences Sun Yat sen University Guangzhou China

Department of Entomology National Museum Praha Czech Republic

Netherlands Centre of Biodiversity Naturalis Leiden Netherlands

Ócsa Hungary

State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol Sun Yat sen University Guangzhou China

Three Gorges Entomological Museum Chongqing China

Tiangong University Tianjin China

Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance Tianjin Normal University Tianjin China

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Bayesian modelling of the fossil record enlightens the evolutionary history of Hemiptera