Hemipteroid Insect Assembling the Tree of Life Project. Neotrogla sp. NespPR

The hemipteroid insect orders (Hemiptera, Psocodea, and Thysanoptera) are a diverse group among the insects, including over 120,000 described species. This group contains many species of ecological, economic, or medical importance, and many of the lineages within this group have piercing-sucking mouthparts. The backbone phylogenetic relationships of this group have not been well studied. One of the major goals of this project is to combine transcriptome and genome sequences (using Illumina sequencing technology) for representatives of all the major lineages of this group and most families to construct a well resolved phylogenetic tree.

半翅类昆虫类群（Hemipteroid insect orders）包含半翅目（Hemiptera）、啮虫总目（Psocodea）与缨翅目（Thysanoptera），是昆虫纲中物种多样性极高的类群，目前已描述的物种超过12万种。该类群涵盖诸多兼具生态、经济或医学重要性的物种，其下多数演化支均具有刺吸式口器。目前针对该类群的核心系统发育关系尚未开展充分研究。本项目的核心目标之一，是选取该类群所有主要演化支及多数科级类群的代表物种，结合其转录组（transcriptome）与基因组（genome）序列（采用Illumina测序技术（Illumina sequencing technology）），构建高分辨率的系统发育树。