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Heteroptera

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Heteroptera

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Also known as heteropteran, heteropterans

The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative, since the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed "bugs" among the Hemiptera. "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive sub-group Enicocephalomorpha have completely membranous wings.

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Heteroptera is a taxon within the animal kingdom, classified under the phylum Arthropoda and class Insecta. Different databases assign varying ranks and classifications to this name. GBIF lists it as a genus in the family Sphaeroceridae and order Diptera, with the scientific name Heteroptera Macquart, 1835. Conversely, WoRMS identifies it as a suborder within the order Hemiptera, noting habitats that include marine, brackish, and freshwater environments. The common name skinnbaggar is also associated with this taxon.

Records for Heteroptera exist across multiple platforms. iNaturalist lists it as a species with 3,296 observations, while GBIF occurrence data totals 383. iDigBio holds 7,306 records, including 41 media files, from institutions such as USNM, LACM, and UCMP, with specimens from the United States and Germany. PubMed contains 10,276 entries related to the query. The taxon is not considered extinct.

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Species

skinnbaggar

Heteroptera

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderDiptera
  5. FamilySphaeroceridae
Habitatmarine, brackish, freshwater
Observations3,296
Observations recorded383

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
7,306
With media
41
Family
Miridae
Collections
USNM, LACM, UCMP
Recorded in
United States, Germany
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Research

10,276 papers

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Hemiptera
Image
Wasserläufer bei der Paarung crop.jpg
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taxon common name
percevejo
Commons category
Heteroptera
taxon rank
suborder
topic's main category
Category:Heteroptera
taxon name
Heteroptera
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
Serbo-Croatian preferred project code
sr
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Encyclopedic overview

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The Heteroptera are a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the order Hemiptera. They are sometimes called "true bugs", though that name more commonly refers to the Hemiptera as a whole. "Typical bugs" might be used as a more unequivocal alternative, since the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed "bugs" among the Hemiptera. "Heteroptera" is Greek for "different wings": most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive sub-group Enicocephalomorpha have completely membranous wings.

The name "Heteroptera" is used in two very different ways in modern classifications. In Linnean nomenclature, it commonly appears as a suborder within the order Hemiptera, where it can be paraphyletic or monophyletic depending on its delimitation. In phylogenetic nomenclature, it is used as an unranked clade within the Prosorrhyncha clade, which in turn is in the Hemiptera clade. This results from the realization that the Coleorrhyncha are just "living fossil" relatives of the traditional Heteroptera, close enough to them to be united with that group.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Heteroptera” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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