The Young Collector's Handbook of Ants, Bees, Dragon-flies, Earwigs, Crickets, and Flies / (Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Diptera).

by W. Harcourt Bath

[Sub-Order 2, Homoptera.]—Fore wings membranous and naked, similar to the hind ones.

[Sub-Order 3, Anaplura.]—Wingless; no metamorphosis.

The Heteroptera are regarded as the highest of the three groups, followed by the Homoptera, while the Anoplura constitute a somewhat aberrant series, and are somewhat in the same position as the fleas (Aphaniptera) are to the true Diptera.

TABULAR VIEW
OF THE
PRINCIPAL FAMILIES OF THE HEMIPTERA.

[Sub-Order 1.—Heteroptera.]
[Tribe I.—Geocores or Land Bugs.]
Family	1.	[Scutelleridæ or Shield Bugs].
Family	2.	[Coreidæ or Land Bugs].
Family	3.	[Lygæidæ or Chinch Bugs].
Family	4.	[Pyrrhocoridæ or Plant Bugs].
Family	5.	[Capsidæ or Sap Bugs].
Family	6.	[Tingididæ or Tree Bugs].
Family	7.	[Cimicidæ or Bed Bugs].
Family	8.	[Reduviidæ or Pirate Bugs].
Family	9.	[Emesidæ or Wolf Bugs].
[Tribe II.—Hydrocores or Water Bugs.]
Family	10.	[Saldidæ or Water Jumpers].
Family	11.	[Hydrometridæ or Skaters].
Family	12.	[Gerridæ or Ocean Bugs].
Family	13.	[Galgulidæ or Shark Bugs].
Family	14.	[Nepidæ or Water Scorpions].
Family	15.	[Notonectidæ or Water Boatmen].
[Sub-Order 2.—Homoptera.]
Family	1.	[Cicadidæ or Cicadas Flies].
Family	2.	[Fulgoridæ or Lantern Flies].
Family	3.	[Membracidæ or Horn Flies].
Family	4.	[Cercopidæ or Froghoppers].
Family	5.	[Tettigonidæ or Meadow Lice].
Family	6.	[Ledridæ or Oak Lice].
Family	7.	[Jassidæ or Elegant Lice].
Family	8.	[Psyllidæ or Plant Lice].
Family	9.	[Aphidæ or Aphides].
Family	10.	[Aleyrodidæ or Powder Flies].
Family	11.	[Coccidæ or Scale Insects].
[Sub-Order 3.—Anoplura.]
Family	1.	[Pediculidæ or True Lice].

SUB-ORDER I.—HETEROPTERA.

The Heteroptera constitute the first sub-order of the Hemiptera. They include the True Bugs, an extensive group of very varied structure and habits. The greater part of the terrestrial species feed on plants, though some feed on the blood of animals, while the aquatic species are principally carnivorous in their habits. This sub-order is divided into two tribes.

Fig. 80.—Graphosoma Lineatum (Mag.)

Tribe I.—Geocores or Land Bugs.