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True Bugs
Heteroptera
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". "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive...
7 branches of this suborder, most-observed first
Pentatomomorph Bugs
infraorderPentatomomorpha
Cimicomorph Bugs
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Water Bugs
infraorderNepomorpha
Semiaquatic Bugs
infraorderGerromorpha
Leptopodomorpha
infraorderLeptopodomorpha
Enicocephalomorpha
infraorderEnicocephalomorpha
Dipsocoromorpha
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Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
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Every page naming Heteroptera in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61267.