The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", [1] though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole.

heteropteran, any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so-called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the Hemiptera.)

Members of the suborder Heteroptera are known as “true bugs”. They have very distinctive front wings, called hemelytra, in which the basal half is leathery and the apical half is membranous. At rest, these wings cross over one another to lie flat along the insect’s back.

True Bugs belong in the insect Order Heteroptera. There are approximately 40,000 described species of true bugs in the world, and over 3,800 in the United States. The True Bugs are insects that have two pairs of wings, the front or outer pair of each divided into a leathery basal part and a membranous apical part.

Dec 5, 2024 · Formerly treated as a separate order called Hemiptera or Heteroptera; now considered a part of the re-defined order Hemiptera Numbers 7 infraorders, with ca. 3850 spp. in ~680 genera of 45 families north of Mexico ( 1 ) and >42,000 spp. in almost 6,000 genera of ~90 families worldwide ( 2 ) ; there are >420 spp. of aquatic and semi-aquatic bugs ...

Very small, stout, convex above; scutellum large, exposed; hindwings reduced or absent; head and pronotum partially or wholly fused; inhabit fresh waters; about 20 species; in all zoogeographic regions. Like Pleidae; about 15 species; only in Asia, Africa, and South America.

The broad objectives of the International Heteropterists’ Society (IHS) are to promote systematic, biogeographic, and biological studies of Heteroptera and to cultivate cooperative research among heteropterists throughout the world. The Society is organized and operated exclusively for scientific and educational purposes.

The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. Sometimes called 'true bugs', that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole, and 'typical bugs' might be used as a more unequivocal alternative since among the Hemiptera, the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed 'bugs'.

The hemipteran suborder Heteroptera, or true bugs, comprises about 45,000 species in ~88 families and is one of the largest groups of non-holometabolous insects. True bugs are found in terrestrial, aquatic, and even marine habitats and their feeding preferences range from phytophagous to zoophagous and hematophagous, involving monophagy, mixed ...

The Heteroptera, commonly called true bugs, are one of four suborders in the order Hemiptera. They are one of the most diverse groups of hemimetabolous insects, comprising more than 45,000 species in 91 families worldwide.