Definition of Suborder Heteroptera

1. Noun. True bugs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Heteroptera

suborder Anthropoidea
suborder Blattaria
suborder Blattodea
suborder Blennioidea
suborder Brachyura
suborder Carnosaura
suborder Cephalaspida
suborder Ceratopsia
suborder Ceratosaura
suborder Charadrii
suborder Clamatores
suborder Euronithopoda
suborder Eurylaimi
suborder Gorgonacea
suborder Gorgoniacea
suborder Heteroptera (current term)
suborder Heterostraci
suborder Homoptera
suborder Hyperoartia
suborder Hyperotreta
suborder Hystricomorpha
suborder Lacertilia
suborder Lari
suborder Lemuroidea
suborder Limicolae
suborder Lipotyphla
suborder Maniraptora
suborder Manteodea
suborder Marginocephalia
suborder Megachiroptera

Literary usage of Suborder Heteroptera

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

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... THE TRUE BUGS (suborder Heteroptera.) The true bugs belong to this group and the common squash- bug may be taken as a typical example. ..."

2. Psyche: A Journal of Entomology by Cambridge Entomological Club (1877)
"Order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera, or plant-bugs. Washington, written & etched by Townend Glover ; transferred to & printed from stone by JC Entwisle, ..."

3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1876)
"We will now, however, return to the suborder Heteroptera, or true plant-bugs. ... Others of the suborder Heteroptera are beneficial to the farmer and ..."

4. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"Suborder HETEROPTERA (Het-e-rop'te-ra). The True Bugs. People that know but little regarding entomology are apt to apply the term bug to any kind of insect; ..."

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