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Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects (also called true bugs) in the order Hemiptera. The word "Heteroptera" is Greek for different wings: most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive infraorder Enicocephalomorpha have wings that are completely membranous.
The name Heteroptera is used in two very different ways in modern classifications; it commonly appears as a suborder within Hemiptera, but also as a rankless (non-Linnaean) but monophyletic grouping of infraorders within the suborder Prosorrhyncha of the order Hemiptera.
The infraorders Gerromorpha and Nepomorpha contain most of the aquatic and semi-aquatic members of the suborder, while nearly all of the remaining groups that are common and familiar are in the infraorders Cimicomorpha and Pentatomomorpha.
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Life cycle of Balboa variabilis Distant (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Rhyparochromidae, Rhyparochrominae, Ozophorini) http://kele.es/kue
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