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Welcome to Order Hemiptera!

Hemiptera - Liber Deserti

Your current chain: State of matter Life > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Hemiptera

(From Wikipedia) Hemiptera (/hɛˈmɪptərə/; from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged') is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs.

FACT: These guys are the only "bugs"; technically speaking, everything else is an insect, if you want to be linguistically correct!

Currently discovered: 3/4 Suborders

Suborder

  1. Sternorrhyncha - Plant-Parasitic Hemipterans
  2. Heteroptera - True Bugs
  3. Auchenorrhyncha - True Hoppers