Heteroptera

Heteroptera
English: True bugs.
Clades: Hemiptera; Exopterygota; Insectae; Arthropoda; Animals.
Name: Heteroptera is Greek for different wings.
Genera: 343; 40000 species; 23 families.

Zoology
Heteroptera have shield bugs, assassin bugs and so on as members. They have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions, called hemelytra. The primitive sub-group Enicocephalomorpha have completely membranous wings.

Families
Cimicomorpha
Dipsocoromorpha
Enicocephalomorpha
Gerromorpha: aquatic and semiaquatic
Leptopodomorpha: aquatic and semiaquatic
Nepomorpha: aquatic and semiaquatic
Peloridiomorpha
Pentatomomorpha

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