Heteroptera is a group of about 40,000 species of insects in the Hemiptera. Sometimes called true bugs,[1] that name more commonly refers to Hemiptera as a whole, and typical bugs might be used as a more unequivocal alternative since among the Hemiptera the heteropterans are most consistently and universally termed bugs. Heteroptera is Greek for different wings: most species have forewings with both membranous and hardened portions (called hemelytra); members of the primitive Enicocephalomorpha have wings that are completely membranous.
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