piercing-sucking mouthparts

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• sucking louse — n. LOUSE (n. 1a) * * * Any of more than 400 species (suborder Anoplura, order Phthiraptera) of small, wingless, flat ectoparasitic insects found worldwide. They have piercing and sucking mouthparts for extracting their food of mammals blood and… …   Universalium

• Arthropod mouthparts — The face of a caterpillar with the mouthparts showing. The mouthparts of arthropods have evolved into a number of forms, each adapted to a different style or mode of feeding. Most mouthparts represent modified, paired appendages, which in… …   Wikipedia

• Insect mouthparts — The development of insect mouthparts from the primitive chewing mouthparts of a grasshopper in the centre (A), to the lapping type (B) of a bee, the siphoning type (C) of a butterfly and the sucking type (D) of a female mosquito. Legend: a,… …   Wikipedia

• insect — insectival /in sek tuy veuhl/, adj. /in sekt/, n. 1. any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two… …   Universalium

• heteropteran — ▪ insect order Introduction   any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the… …   Universalium

• homopteran — /heuh mop teuhr euhn, hoh /, adj. 1. homopterous. n. 2. a homopterous insect. [1835 45; see HOMOPTEROUS, AN] * * * ▪ insect order Introduction   any of more than 32,000 species of sucking insects, the members of which exhibit considerable… …   Universalium

• Sharpshooter (insect) — Taxobox name = Sharpshooter image size = 300px image caption = Sharpshooter (Cicadellidae) regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera familia = Cicadellidae subfamilia = Cicadellinae tribus = Proconiini subdivision… …   Wikipedia

• Geocoris — Taxobox name = Geocoris image width = 200px image caption = Geocoris punctipes regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera familia = Lygaeidae subfamilia = Geocorinae genus = Geocoris genus authority = Fallén, 1814… …   Wikipedia

• Glassy-winged sharpshooter — Taxobox name = Glassy winged sharpshooter image width = 240px regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera familia = Cicadellidae genus = Homalodisca species = H. vitripennis binomial = Homalodisca vitripennis binomial …   Wikipedia

• Gelastocoridae — Taxobox name = Toad bugs image caption = Gelastocoridae at the edge of the Eel River, California regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hemiptera subordo = Heteroptera infraordo = Nepomorpha familia = Gelastocoridae… …   Wikipedia

• Leafhopper — Leafhoppers Adult two lined gum treehopper (Eurymeloides bicincta: Eurymelinae) demonstrating a symbiotic relationship with meat ants Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia