Hemiptera

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See also: hemiptera

Translingual

Cimex lectularius (bed bug)
(suborder Heteroptera)

Etymology

From Latin hemipterus (“half-winged”).

Proper noun

Hemiptera

  1. A taxonomic order within the superorder Condylognatha – true bugs.
    • 1992, Anna Maryańska-Nadachowska, Valentina G. Kuznetsova, Elżbieta Warchałowska-Śliwa, “Karyotypes of Psyllina (Homoptera)”, in Folia Biologica: International Journal of Biological Research, volume 40, Cracow Zoological Publications, page 23:
      In all the species studied holokinetic chromosomes were found, this being a characteristic feature of the Hemiptera [...]

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