lygaeid bug

Definitions of lygaeid bug
  1. noun
    a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees
    synonyms: lygaeid
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    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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