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Homoptera   Listen
noun
Homoptera  n. pl.  (Zool.) A suborder of Hemiptera, in which both pairs of wings are similar in texture, and do not overlap when folded, as in the cicada. See Hemiptera.





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"Homoptera" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the following orders: — In the Coleoptera, a minute Elater; Orthoptera, a Gryllus and a Blatta; Hemiptera, one species; Homoptera, two; Neuroptera a Chrysopa; Hymenoptera, two ants; Lepidoptera nocturna, a Diopaea, and a Pterophorus (?); ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin
... HOMOPTERA.—An order or sub-order of insects having (like the Hemiptera) a jointed beak, but in which the fore-wings are either wholly membranous or wholly leathery, The Cicadae, frog-hoppers, ...
— On the Origin of Species - 6th Edition • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Homoptera" :   family Membracidae, Cicadellidae, Coccoidea, Fulgoridae, family Cicadidae, Psyllidae, family Psyllidae, order Hemiptera, Cercopidae, family Fulgoridae, homopteran, family Cicadellidae, animal order, Membracidae, superfamily Aphidoidea, Jassidae, Aleyrodidae, Aphidoidea, family Cercopidae, Cicadidae, homopterous insect, family Chermidae, family Jassidae, suborder Homoptera, family Aleyrodidae, Chermidae, Hemiptera


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