Characteristics of order Hemiptera

1. Order Hemiptera

2. True Bugs

3. Characteristics
• Hemiptera…Hemi…. Half
• Pteron …. Wings
• Because the forewing structure is partially
hardened at the base and partially
membraneous.

4. Hemiptera
 True Bugs
 Piercing or sucking mouth parts.
 6000 described species
 Range in size fro 1mm to 110 mm
 Some species are wingless
 Some have two pair of wings
 Some have only forewings which me be hardened or
membranous
 Compound eyes..Upto 3 oceli..
 Piercing and sucking mouth parts …Pointed as rostrum
or proboscis.

5. Beetles And Bugs
Beetles Bugs

6. Hemiptera
Beetles have mandibulate and bugs have
proboscis sucking mouth parts.
Bug…..Mouth Part

7. Beetles

8. Corium And Clavus
• Corium is thickened and leathry part of
forewings.
• Clavus is venation in the wing of bug.

10. Suborders of Hemiptera
• Heteroptera
Bed Bug
Leaf Bug
Leaf footed bug
Seed bug
Water Bug

11. Heteroptera
• Land Bug and water Bug
• Herbivores ,,Feed on tiny plants and fungi
• Parasitic,,,,,, Bed bug
• Carnivores,,, Giant water Bug feed on Goldfish

12. Bed Bug
• Classification
• Kingdom Animalia
• Phylum Arthropoda
• Subphylum Hexapoda
• Class Insecta
• Order Hemiptera
• Family Cimicidae
• Genus Cimex
• Species lectularius

13. Bed Bug

14. Bed Bug
• Are wingless
• Are half a centimeter long
• Have flat oval shaped body
• Have six legs
• Are light brown in colour, changing into rust
red after having meal of blood.

15. Bed Bug
• Before meal of blood • After meal of blood

16. Water Bug

17. Characteristics of water Bug
Scientific name
Lethocerus insulans
Approx 7 cm
Aquatic Predator ,,Feed on gold fish,Tadpoles
salamanders
Front legs are adapted for grasping prey..
Hind legs are adapted for swimming

18. Leaf-footed Bug

19. Characteristics of leaf footed Bug
Large plant eating bugs
Feed on plant juices.
The lower leg may be shaped as dried
leaf,Irregular and flat.
Have large prominent shoulders resembles
armor.
Make loud noise when they fly..as a means of
defence when they are threatened.

20. Suborder Auchenurrhyncha
Leaf Hopper
Spittle bugScales
Short, bristle like antennae
ovipositor well developed
 good fliers or jumpers
Evolved towards increased wing development
jumping capacity.

21. Characteristics Of Leaf hopper

22. Characteristics Of Leaf Hopper
Plant feeders that suck plant juices.
Hind legs are modified for jumping, are
covered with hairs that facilitates the
spreading of secrection over their bodies that
act as water repellent and carrier of
pheromones.
 Wings are held like tent over abdomen.
Oceli are present on the top of the head.

23. Suborder Sternorrhyncha
 Soft bodies
Wingless
Cover their bodies with wax which prevent
their bodies from drying out.
Longer filiform antennae
ovipositor reduced.

24. Aphids

25. Aphids
Plant lice,, sap sucking .
Destructive insects on cultivated plants in
temperate regions
They are so small that wind can transport
them for long distance.
Often green ,,might be brown and red