Hemipteroid Insect Assembling the Tree of Life Project. Rhopaloceras sp. RpspCrstr

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.

半翅总目昆虫类群包含半翅目（Hemiptera）、啮虫总目（Psocodea）以及缨翅目（Thysanoptera）三个目，是昆虫纲中物种多样性极高的类群，已报道物种超12万种。该类群包含诸多具有重要生态、经济或医学价值的物种，且绝大多数类群均具有刺吸式口器。目前学界对该类群的系统发育主干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系以及绝大多数科的代表类群，结合转录组与基因组测序数据（采用Illumina测序技术），构建分辨率较高的系统发育树。