hemipterous insect

/həˌmɪptərəs ˌɪnˈsɛkt/

Other forms: hemipterous insects

Definitions of hemipterous insect

1. noun

   insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
   synonyms: bug, hemipteran, hemipteron

   types:

   leaf bug, plant bug

   small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices

   lygaeid, lygaeid bug

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

   coreid, coreid bug

   a true bug

   Cimex lectularius, bed bug, bedbug, chinch

   an insect that invades homes, usually infests beds and feeds on human and animal blood

   Notonecta undulata, backswimmer

   predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites

   true bug

   any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera

   capsid, mirid, mirid bug

   a variety of leaf bug

   lace bug

   small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines

   Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug

   small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses

   Anasa tristis, squash bug

   large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family

   leaf-foot bug, leaf-footed bug

   large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs

   type of:

   insect

   a small creature with six legs, three body fragments, two antennae, and usually wings belonging in the Arthropoda phylum