Hemiptera

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 [...]

Hypernyms

• (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda - subphylum; Insecta - class; Dicondylia - clade; Pterygota - subclass; Metapterygota - clade; Neoptera - infraclass; Eumetabola, Paraneoptera - clades; Condylognatha - superorder

Hyponyms

• (order): Auchenorrhyncha, Clypeorrhyncha, Coleorrhyncha, Heteroptera, Sternorrhyncha - suborders

References

• Hemiptera on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hemiptera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Hemiptera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248