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lygaeid

DEFINITIONS OF: lygaeid

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n a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees

Synonyms:
lygaeid bug
Types:
Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug
small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses
Type of:
bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect
insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
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