Hemiptera is an order of four-winged insects, having a suctorial proboscis, the outer wings, or wing-covers, are either entirely formed of a substance intermediate between the elytra of beetles and the ordinary membranous wings of most insects, or leathery at the base and transparent towards the tips (hemelytra). In one group (the Aphides) all the wings when present are membranous. The true wings are straight and unplaited, Some feed on vegetable and some on animal juices. Those having the upper wings of a uniform substance throughout (whether leathery or transparent) have been constituted into a section, and by some naturalists into an order named Homoptera; those having them partly leathery and partly transparent constitute the section or order Heteroptera. To the Hemiptera belong the plant-lice, boat-fly, cochineal insect, locust, bug, lantern-fly, etc. Research Hemiptera
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Research Hemiptera
