Bugs

kingdom anamalia 

Phylum Arthropoda

Class Insecta

Includes: Cicadas, Stink Bugs, Shield Bugs, Water Striders, and Hoppers

Characteristics

• Half-leather wings or "Roof-like" wings
• Mouthparts are shaped like a hard beak for piercing
• Scientists combined two large groups together

Variation
(Food, body plan, etc)

Misconceptions

Research

INCOMPLETE METAMORPHOSIS (EGG, NYMPH, ADULT)

nymphs are wingless

suborders

Heteroptera

Auchenorrhyncha

Sternorrhyncha

common families

Leafhoppers - cicadellidae

Treehopper - Membracidae (thorn bug)

lantern bug - fulgoridae

froghopper - Cercopoidea

flatid planthoppers - Flatidae

acanalon planthoppers - Acanaloniidae

dictyoph planthopper - Dictyopharidae

net-winged hoppers - Nogodinidae

cicadas - Cicadidae

Aphids - Aphididae

white flies - Aleyrodidae

mealybug - pseudococcidae

giant scale insects - Monophlebidae

stink bugs - Pentatomidae

shield-backed bugs - Scutelleridae

assassin bugs - Reduviidae

ambush bug - Phymatidae

flower bugs - Anthocoridae (pirate bugs)

seed bugs - lygaeidae

leaf bug - miridae

leaf-footed bug - coreidae

lace bug - Tingidae

bed bug - Cimicidae

giant water bug - Belostomatidae

water scorpion - Nepidae

backswimmers - Notonectidae

water boatmen - corixidae

toad bug - Gelastocoridae