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Meanings of Hemiptera in English

Russian
полужесткокрылые
Portuguese
hemípteros
Spanish
rhynchota
Catalan
hemípters
Wikidata

Order of insects.

        Related terms
        полужесткокрылые
        Portuguese
        hemiptera
        Catalan
        hemípters

        Plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

              hemiptera
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              Usage of Hemiptera in English
              1
              Rhodnius prolixus is a Hemiptera that feeds exclusively on vertebrate blood in all life stages.
              Pubmed
              2
              It was one of the Hemiptera, Spiniger luteicornis (Walk.
              The Naturalist in Nicaragua
              3
              In its vibrating coloured wing-cases it departed greatly from the normal character of the Hemiptera, and assumed that of the hornets.
              The Naturalist in Nicaragua
              4
              Marshall captured, near Salisbury, Mashonaland, three similar species of ants (Hymenoptera) with a bug (Hemiptera) and a Locustid (Orthoptera), the two latter mimicking the former.
              Darwin and Modern Science
              5
              -Plant-lice, scale-insects, and leaf-hoppers furnish ants with honey, and in return are protected by the latter.-Contestbetween wasps and ants.-Waxy secretions of the homopterous hemiptera.
              The Naturalist in Nicaragua