Hemiptera

Definition: Hemiptera

Hemiptera

Noun

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

Date "Hemiptera" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Biology & Biotechnology	This term is sometimes used to include the Order Homoptera as well as the true hemipterans; same as Heteroptera and Hemiptera-Heteroptera. Source: European Union. (references)
	Very important order of insects which probably contains more than 50, 000. . . forewings thick and leathery at bases, membranous distally; hind wings entirely membranous. . . /also heteroptera WEBIN 66 2- . . Source: European Union. (references)
Food & Agriculture	Characterised by four membranous wings, legless, grublike, except sawflies(caterpillar-like with six to eight pairs of prolegs without crochets(hooked hairs)); many species with highly developed social behaviour. Source: European Union. (references)
Health	A large order of insects characterized by having the mouth parts adapted to piercing or sucking. It is comprised of four suborders: Heteroptera, Auchenorrhyncha, Sternorrhyncha, and Coleorrhyncha. (references)
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Hemiptera is an order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in two suborders, Heteroptera and Homoptera. Originally the Homoptera were treated as a separate order. Members of the Hemiptera, and of the Heteroptera in particular, are sometimes called "true bugs". The name 'heteroptera' comes from their forewings having both membranous and hard portions. It is also this which gives the order its name, hemiptera, coming from the Greek for half-wing.

Species of order Hemiptera occcur worldwide; they are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphss having piercing and sucking mouthparts housed in a long "beak". These are used mostly to feed on plant juices, but some species are adapted to suck blood from animals or other insects.

Suborder Heteroptera

25,000 known species in over 60 families:

shield bug or stink bug
assassin bug (Reduviidae)
back swimmer or water boatman (Notonectidae)
lesser water boatman (Corixidae)
saucer bug (Naucoridae)
pond skater (Gerridae)

Suborder Homoptera

42,500 known species

Series Auchenorryncha

Cicadas and hoppers; 33,000 species in over 30 families.

cicada (Cicadidae)
froghopper (Cercopidae)
treehopper (Membracidae)
leafhopper (Cicadellidae)
jumping plant lice (Psyllidae)

Series Sternorryncha

12,500 species.

aphid (Aphididae)
wooly and gall-making aphids (Eriosomatidae- also Pemphigidae)
pine and spruce aphids (Adelgidae- also Chermidae)
phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae)
greenfly
giant coccids and ground pearls (Margarodidae)
armored scale (Diaspididae)
cochineal (Dactylopiidae)
lac scales (Kerriidae- also Lacciferidae)
soft scales (Coccidae)
pit scales (Asterolecaniidae)
mealy bug (Pseudococcidae)
felted scales (Eriococcidae)
whitefly (Alerodidae)

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Synonym: Hemiptera

Synonym: order Hemiptera (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Hemiptera

English words defined with "Hemiptera": Dimera ♦ Hemelytrum, Hemipter, Hemipterous ♦ order Hemiptera ♦ Promuscis ♦ Rhynchota ♦ Tettigonian, true bug. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Adults of the British Aquatic Hemiptera Heteroptera: A Key with Ecological Notes (reference) Revision of Phylinae Hemiptera, Miridae of the Indo Pacific (reference) (more book examples)
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"Hemiptera" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Hemiptera" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	75%	3	202,518
Noun (singular)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expression using "Hemiptera": order Hemiptera. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Hemiptera": hemiptera-heteroptera.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "Hemiptera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Dutch		halfvleugeligen, snavelinsekten. (various references)

French		hémiptéro des, hémiptères (heteroptera), hémiptère hétéroptère (hemiptera-heteroptera, heteroptera), hémiméroptères (heteroptera), ménorhynques. (various references)

German		Halbflüger. (various references)

Greek		ημίπτερα. (various references)

Italian		emitteri. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		半翅目 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		は�"しもく. (various references)

Pig Latin		emipterahay

Portuguese		hemípteros. (various references)

Spanish		hemípteros. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Hemiptera": hemipteran, hemipterans. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
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	-1 letter: hemipter, teraphim.
	-2 letters: emerita, emirate, emptier, hempier, meatier, peatier, preheat, primate, prithee, tempera, thermae.
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	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-i-m-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: hemipteran.
	+2 letters: champerties, hemipterans, metanephric, metanephroi.
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