Family Pentatomidae has a worldwide distribution, and is considered as one of the largest groups within the Heteroptera. The family is subdivided into 10 different morphological lineages (subfamilies): Aphylinae, Asopinae, Cyrtocorinae, Discocephalinae, Edessinae, Pentatominae, Phyllocephalinae, Podopinae, Serbaninae and Stirotarsinae, however the internal phylogeny and subfamily level relationships of the group remain unstudied. In this talk, molecular markers COI, 16S RNA, 28S RNA and 18S RNA with more than 200 species have been used to test their monophylies and relationships. Based on the results, reclassification and reinterpretation of the characters and groupings should be necessary to understand the evolutionary lineages that make up the Pentatomidae family.

• Marcos Roca-Cusachs(Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agricultural and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea)
• Sunghoon Jung(Laboratory of Systematic Entomology, Department of Applied Biology, College of Agricultural and life Sciences, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea)