Heteroptera

(het-e-rop’te-rii), m. pl. [NL. neut. pl. of heteropterus: see heteropterous. One of the two prime divisions of hemipterous insects founded by Latreille (1817). It isa suborder of Hemipter a, contrasted with Homoptera, from which it differs in the horizontal posture of the head, which is socketed in a hollow of the prothorax, and has a usually 4-jointed rostrum at the tip, and in the structure and position of the wings, which lie flat on the back, and are composed of three recognizable parts, the corium, the clavus, and the membrana (the last being veined and oyer lapping its fellow), with sometimes a fourth piece, the cuneus, at the end of the corium. The Heteroptera are those insects to which the popular term bug is specially applicable. heteropteran (het-e-rop’te-ran), ». One of the Heteroptera; a heteropter or true bug.