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Hemiptera (/ h ɛ ˈ m ɪ p t ər ə /; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs.
Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. ... Hemiptera (true bugs, leafhoppers, aphids, etc.) Heteroptera:
"Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative, since the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed "bugs" among the Hemiptera. "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra ); members of the primitive sub-group ...
nymph in Cyprus Walking on water surface; the dark blobs are shadows cast by water disturbances around each of the six legs touching the water.. The Gerridae are a family of insects in the order Hemiptera, commonly known as water striders, water skeeters, water scooters, water bugs, pond skaters, water skippers, water gliders, water skimmers or puddle flies.
Wing of a pentatomid, showing corium. The corium is the thickened, leathery, basal portion of the forewing or hemelytron of an insect in the order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera. Specifically, the large anterior portion of the basal region is the corium.
The group is extremely sexually dimorphic; female scale insects, unusual for Hemiptera, retain the immature external morphology even when sexually mature, a condition known as neoteny. Adult females are pear-shaped, elliptical or circular, with no wings, and usually no constriction separating the head from the body.
Articles relating to the Hemiptera (true bugs), an order of insects comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from 1 mm (0.04 in) to around 15 cm (6 in), and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking mouthparts.
Hemiptera (true bugs) For extinct groups and possible future splits, see text. The Exopterygota ( Ancient Greek ἔξω (éxō, “outside”) + πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) + Neo-Latin -ota (“having”)), also known as Hemimetabola , are a superorder of insects of the subclass Pterygota in the infraclass Neoptera , in which the young ...