Hemiptera is a large, cosmopolitan order of insects, comprising some 67,500 known species in three suborders. Traditionally these taxa were treated as two separate orders, Homoptera (= Auchenorrhyncha plus Sternorrhyncha) and Heteroptera; the former name is now obsolete (the group was paraphyletic), and the latter name is falling into disuse, often replaced by Prosorrhyncha. Members of the "Heteroptera" are typically called "true bugs". The name heteroptera comes from their forewings having both membranous and hard portions. It is also essentially this same feature which gives the order its name, hemiptera, coming from the Greek for half-wing.

Members of the Hemiptera are distinguished from all other insects by both adults and nymphs having symmetrical piercing and sucking mouthparts housed in a long "beak". They are thus limited to a liquid diet. Most species feed on plant juices, including seeds, but some species are predatory (on arthropods and sometimes small animals), and a few are adapted to suck blood from mammals.

Suborder Prosorrhyncha

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done breaking legs off Orthoptera, so i'm moving on to Hemiptera. Let this be a lesson to any of you who think about double crossing me.
italia112 (nancypants) Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:44:57 -0000
done breaking legs off Orthoptera, so i'm moving on to Hemiptera. Let this be a lesson to any of you who think about double crossing me.
@SDNHM Exam? Order Hemiptera - True Bugs is a taxonomic group within the broader Class Insecta. Bugs are insects, not all insects are bugs.
scgardeningnews (HGIC Gardening News) Wed, 09 Dec 2009 21:02:42 -0000
@SDNHM Exam? Order Hemiptera - True Bugs is a taxonomic group within the broader Class Insecta. Bugs are insects, not all insects are bugs.
First record of genus Rufitidia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2009/zt02306.html
Zootaxa (Zootaxa Editor) Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:56:22 -0000
First record of genus Rufitidia (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae: Typhlocybinae) from China http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/list/2009/zt02306.html

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