Hemiptera

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Hemiptera | image = Twolined3668.JPG | image_caption = Two-lined spittlebug | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Arthropoda | classis = Insecta | subclassis = Pterygota | infraclassis = Neoptera | ordo = Hemiptera | ordo_authority = Linnaeus, 1758 | subdivision_ranks = Suborders | subdivision = Heteroptera
Coleorrhyncha
Homoptera:
Sternorrhyncha
Auchenorrhyncha
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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 occur worldwide; they are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphs 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.

1 Suborder Heteroptera
2 Suborders
- 2.1 Suborder Auchenorrhyncha
- 2.2 Suborder Sternorrhyncha
3 External links

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Suborder Heteroptera

Main article: Heteroptera

25,000 known species in over 60 families:

shield bugs or stink bugs (Pentatomidae and related families)
Leaf footed bugs and squash bugs (Coreidae)
ground bugs (Lygaeidae)
assassin bugs (Reduviidae)
bedbugs and flower bugs (Cimicidae)
capsid bugs or mirid bugs (Miridae; c.6,000 species)
back swimmers or water boatman (Notonectidae)
lesser water boatmen (Corixidae)
saucer bugs (Naucoridae)
pond skaters (Gerridae)
Smaller water strider (Veliidae)
all bugs Must have six (6) legs and 3 body parts

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Suborders

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There are approximately 42,500 known species.

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Suborder Auchenorrhyncha

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

cicada (Cicadidae)
froghopper, spittlebug (Cercopidae and allied families)
treehopper (Membracidae)
leafhopper (Cicadellidae)

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Suborder Sternorrhyncha

12,500 species.

aphids ("greenfly", Aphididae)
woolly and gall-making aphids (Eriosomatidae, Pemphigidae)
pine and spruce aphids (Adelgidae, Chermidae)
phylloxerans (Phylloxeridae, including Vine Phylloxera)
whitefly (Aleyrodidae)
jumping plant lice (Psyllidae)
Superfamily Coccoidea (scale insects)
- cottony cushion scales, giant coccids, and ground pearls (Margarodidae)
- armored scale (Diaspididae)
- cochineal (Dactylopiidae)
- lac scales (Kerriidae, Lacciferidae)
- soft scales (Coccidae)
- pit scales (Asterolecaniidae)
- mealybugs (Pseudococcidae)
- felted scales (Eriococcidae)