Elementary entomology elementaryento00sand Year: 1912 CHAPTER XI THE TRUE BUGS, APHIDES, AND SCALE INSECTS {HEMIPTERA) Characteristics. Insects with four wings, except in the parasitic forms ; fore- wings, thickened at the base, with membranous tips and overlapping on the back in the Heteroptera, but entirely membranous and sloping at the sides of the body in the suborder Homoptera; mouth-parts, suctorial; antennae, few- jointed ; metamorphosis, incomplete. Ordinarily all insects or small, insectlike animals are called bugs by the uninitiated, but when the entomologist speaks of a Fig. 13
Elementary entomology elementaryento00sand Year: 1912 CHAPTER XI THE TRUE BUGS, APHIDES, AND SCALE INSECTS {HEMIPTERA) Characteristics. Insects with four wings, except in the parasitic forms ; fore- wings, thickened at the base, with membranous tips and overlapping on the back in the Heteroptera, but entirely membranous and sloping at the sides of the body in the suborder Homoptera; mouth-parts, suctorial; antennae, few- jointed ; metamorphosis, incomplete. Ordinarily all insects or small, insectlike animals are called bugs by the uninitiated, but when the entomologist speaks of a Fig. 139. Fore-wings of Heteroptera, showing thickened veins and arrangement of veins in membranous tip characteristic of various families /, Capsidae; 2, Pyrrhocorldac; s, I^ygaeidae; 4, Coreidae; j, A^abidac; 6, Acantliidae (After Comstock) bug he refers to an insect of the order Hcmiptcra. The insects of this order are readily recognized by the strong, pointed suck- ing beak which extends from the head between the legs, and in which are inclosed the other mouth-parts, as already described (see p. 17). They develop with an incomplete metamorphosis, as has been described for the squash-bug (p. 50), which is a good ex- ample of one group. The name of the order, Haniptera, is de- rived from herni (half) and pteron (wing), but is really applicable to only one suborder, the Heteroptera. The name Heteroptera has a similar significance, referring to the fore-wings, which ha\'e the 107
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