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  • noun Plural form of hemipteran.

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Examples

  • The most widely known hemipterans are probably water striders.

    Parenting is hard. Angry Professor 2005

  • The site includes spiders (phylum Arthropoda, class Arachnida), isopods (e.g., pill bugs; phylum Arthropoda, class Crustacea), and insects (phylum Arthropoda, class Insecta); bugs are actually a specific order of insect (hemipterans - true bugs), so even most insects can't technically be called bugs.

    Parenting is hard. Angry Professor 2005

  • The defining feature of hemipterans is that both the nymph and adult form have a beak which they use to draw fluids from plants.

    unknown title 2009

  • Most plant feeding hemipterans are found on the stem, bark of plant, leaves, and root. ants.

    CreationWiki - Recent changes [en] 2009

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