Hemiptera
See also: hemiptera
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin hemipterus (“half-winged”).
Proper noun
Hemiptera
- 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
Descendants
- ⇒ English: hemipteran
- → Greek: ημίπτερα (imíptera)
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