Definition of Hemipterous insect

1. Noun. Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Hemipterous Insect

hemiplegic amyotrophy
hemiplegic gait
hemiplegic migraine
hemiplegics
hemiplegy
hemipode
hemiprotein
hemiproteins
hemipter
hemiptera
hemipteral
hemipteran
hemipterans
hemipteron
hemipterous
hemipterous insect (current term)
hemipters
hemisect
hemisected
hemisecting
hemisection
hemisections
hemisects
hemisensory
hemiseptum
hemisolvate
hemispasm
hemispatial
hemispheral
hemisphere

Literary usage of Hemipterous insect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"A new hemipterous insect from Boutan (East Indies), forming the Type of a New Genus (1849). Entora. Soc. Trans, i. 1830-61, pp. 1-3. ..."

2. Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ: A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts by Louis Agassiz (1854)
"... an apparently new species of hemipterous insect from Fort ... hemipterous insect from Sierra Leone.—Newman's Entomologist, 1842, p. 406. 11. ..."

3. The Guide to Knowledge. edited by William Pinnock (1833)
"In a coleopterous insect, the wing-cases are commonly of a hard crustaceous texture, but in an hemipterous insect, they are ordinarily of a parchment-like ..."

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