hemipteran

1. Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base;
   Usually show incomplete metamorphosis (synset 102239548)
   is a type of: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
   subtypes:

   • leaf bug, plant bug - small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices
   • lygaeid, lygaeid bug - a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
   • coreid, coreid bug - a true bug
   • bed bug, bedbug, chinch, cimex lectularius - bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood
   • backswimmer, notonecta undulata - predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites
   • true bug - any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera
   belongs to: hemiptera, order hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)
   same as: bug, hemipteron, hemipterous insect

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