homopteran

Noun
  1. Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings (synset 102248663)
    is a type of: insect - small air-breathing arthropod
    subtypes:
    • whitefly - minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects
    • coccid insect - scale insects and mealybugs
    • louse, plant louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
    • cicada, cicala - stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone
    • spittle insect, spittlebug - small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete
    • leafhopper - small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants
    • plant hopper, planthopper - related to the leafhoppers and spittlebugs but rarely damages cultivated plants
    belongs to: homoptera, suborder homoptera - plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects
    same as: homopterous insect

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