hemipteron
Noun
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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 arthropodsubtypes:- 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)
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