A Guide to the Insects of the Coal Oil Point Reserve

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      Insects of Coal Oil Point > Guide > Heteroptera - True Bugs

Heteroptera - True Bugs

Heteropterais a very large and diverse order of insects. True bugs are easilyrecognized by their front wings, known as hemelytra- where the basalhalf of the wings are thick and leathery and the tips are membranous.Like Homoptera,their mouthparts are long beaks, which they use to feed on plants orother insects, or in a few cases vertebrate blood. Most true bugs areterrestrial, though a good number are aquatic.

The Coal Oil Point Reserve collection contains 24 species of true bugs.




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Corixidae - Water Boatmen




Notonectidae - Backswimmers




Anthocoridae - Minute Pirate Bugs




Miridae - Leaf or Plant Bugs









Additional pictures and information about Miridae

Reduviidae - Assasin Bugs





Tingidae - Lace Bugs





Berytidae - Stilt Bugs





Lygaeidae - Seed Bugs












Rhopalidae - Scentless Plant Bugs





Saldidae - Shore Bugs





Cydnidae - Burrower Bugs




 

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