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homopterous insect - insects having membranous forewings and hind wings | ||
homopteran | ||
insect small air-breathing arthropod | ||
homoptera, suborder homoptera plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects | ||
whitefly minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects | ||
coccid insect scale insects and mealybugs | ||
plant louse, louse any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants | ||
cicada, cicala stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone | ||
spittle insect, spittlebug small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete | ||
leafhopper small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants |