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Definition of Homopterous insect
1. Noun. Insects having membranous forewings and hind wings.
Generic synonyms: Insect
Group relationships: Homoptera, Suborder Homoptera
Specialized synonyms: Whitefly, Coccid Insect, Louse, Plant Louse, Cicada, Cicala, Spittle Insect, Spittlebug, Leafhopper, Plant Hopper, Planthopper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homopterous Insect
Literary usage of Homopterous insect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psyche by Cambridge Entomological Club (1893)
"OVIPOSITION OF A homopterous insect IN YUCCA. BY C. H TYI. ... On May 15, 1891,
a grayish homopterous insect, one of the Fulgoridae, or lantern-flies, ..."
2. Darwin and After Darwin: An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a by George John Romanes (1910)
"So that both the form and the colouring of the homopterous insect has been brought
to resemble, with singular exactness, 1 For a full account of this ..."
3. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1899)
"mian fossil, was formerly supposed to be a homopterous insect, but it is very
anomalous, and its claim to a position in ..."
4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"It resembles much more closely a minute cicada or lu:rvest-fly than any other
homopterous insect. It hibernates in the adult stage in crevices in the bark ..."
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