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suborder Heteroptera - true bugs

animal order - the order of animals

Hemiptera, order Hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)

heteropterous insect - true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips

Belostomatidae, family Belostomatidae - water bugs

family Nepidae, Nepidae - water scorpions

Corixidae, family Corixidae - water bugs

family Gerrididae, Gerrididae, family Gerridae, Gerridae - an arthropod family that includes water striders

family Reduviidae, Reduviidae - assassin bugs

family Pyrrhocoridae, Pyrrhocoridae - firebugs

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References in periodicals archive

Order Hemiptera, Suborder Heteroptera. Infraorders Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha.

Observations of waterscorpions (Insecta: Heteroptera: Nepidae) in the Nizwa Area, Northern Oman

Sweet, "Justification for the Aradimorpha as an infraorder of the suborder Heteroptera (Hemiptera, Prosorrhyncha) with special reference to the pregenital abdominal structure," in Denisia 19, Zugleich Kataloge der OO, vol.

Phylogenetic signals from nepomorpha (insecta: hemiptera: heteroptera) mouthparts: stylets bundle, sense organs, and labial segments

In this report, the authors investigated the water-dwelling water boatman, which belongs to the Corixidae family of the order Hemiptera, suborder Heteroptera.

Aquatic insect inspires new submarine design

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