hemipteron

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1.hemipteron - insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosishemipteran, hemipterous insect, buginsect - small air-breathing arthropodHemiptera, order Hemiptera - plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas)leaf bug, plant bug - small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juiceslygaeid, lygaeid bug - a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit treescoreid, coreid bug - a true bugbed bug, bedbug, chinch, Cimex lectularius - bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human bloodbackswimmer, Notonecta undulata - predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bitestrue bug - any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera