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Definition of Suborder Heteroptera
1. Noun. True bugs.
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Hemiptera, Order Hemiptera
Member holonyms: Heteropterous Insect, Belostomatidae, Family Belostomatidae, Family Nepidae, Nepidae, Corixidae, Family Corixidae, Family Gerridae, Family Gerrididae, Gerridae, Gerrididae, Family Reduviidae, Reduviidae, Family Pyrrhocoridae, Pyrrhocoridae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Heteroptera
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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