单词 | heteroptera |
释义 | Heteropteran. Entomology. With plural agreement. A suborder of Hemiptera n., comprising those insects whose wings consist of dissimilar parts, being coriaceous at the base and membranous at the tip; the true bugs. Opposed to Homoptera n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera Heteroptera1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlvii. 385 He denominated the first of the sections Heteroptera. 1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 25 The Heteroptera cannot exactly be said either to sting or bite. Derivatives heteˈropteran n. = heteropter n. ΚΠ 1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 555/1 Heteropterans, Heteroptera, the name of a section of Hemipterans, comprehending those in which the hemelytra terminate abruptly by a membranous appendage. heteˈropterous adj. belonging to or having the characters of the Heteroptera. ΚΠ 1895 Naturalist 213 Mr. Mason recorded 132 out of about 420 heteropterous hemiptera known to inhabit the British Islands. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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