true bug

English

Noun

true bug (plural true bugs)

2. Any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially those of the suborder Heteroptera, that are wingless or have two pairs of wings, and have mouthparts adapted for piercing and sucking.

   Synonym: bug (precisest sense)

   Hypernyms: paraneopteran < bug (insect sense), insect < arthropod < bug (broad sense) < invertebrate < animal < creature, critter

   Hyponyms: aphid, plant louse, assassin bug, cicada, leafhopper, moss bug, planthopper, shield bug, spittlebug

   • 1858, “Insects Injurious to Vegetation”, in The (old) Farmer's Almanack, page 37:

     Fig. 16 is the striped or cucumber-bug, as it is improperly called, but which is in reality a beetle, while fig. 17, the squash-bug, is a true bug, being without jaws or mouth, except a long slender tube, fitted for piercing and sucking the sap of plants.

Related terms

• true water bug

Translations

any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and in particular of the suborder Heteroptera

• Dutch: wants (nl) m
• Esperanto: cimo (eo)
• Finnish: luteet
• French: hétéroptère (fr) m
• German: Wanze (de) f
• Hebrew: פִּשְׁפֵּשׁ (he) m (pishpésh)
• Norwegian: tege f
• Polish: pluskwiak (pl) m
• Russian: клоп (ru) m (klop)
• Slovene: stenica (sl) f
• Thai: มวน (th) (muuan)

See also

extant orders of insects in English

• jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
• cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
• beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
• earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
• flies, dipterans (Diptera)
• webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
• mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
• ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
• true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
• hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
• butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
• mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
• mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
• scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
• megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
• neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
• damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
• orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
• stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
• stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
• booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
• snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
• fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
• strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
• thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
• caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
• zorapterans (Zoraptera)
• silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)