Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture ProCon Money Videos
heteropteran
Table of Contents
References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images
squash bug ambush bug Amazonian leaf-footed bug water strider diversity among heteropterans flower bug milkweed bug life cycle of a chinch bug stinkbug back swimmer
Quizzes
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
wasp. A close-up of a Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antenna and compound eye. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees.
The Bug-Eyed Quiz
Read Next
Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of yellow fever, dengue, and dengue hemorrhagic fever.
10 Questions About Insects Answered
Discover
Portrait of a mountain gorilla at a short distance. gorilla close up portrait.The mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei beringei)
Falling Stars: 10 of the Most Famous Endangered Species
Germans from East and West stand on the Berlin Wall in front of the Brandenburg Gate in the November 10, 1989, photo, one day after the wall opened.
Timeline of the 1980s
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Aspirin pills.
7 Drugs that Changed the World
Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece
Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents
Flags of the United Kingdom of Great Britain - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Union Flag.
Acts of Union: Uniting the United Kingdom
Periodical Cicada, Adult, Magicicada spp. Requires 17 years to complete development. Nymph splits its skin, and transforms into an adult. Feeds on sap of tree roots. Northern Illinois Brood. This brood is the largest emergence of cicadas anywhere
Why Do Some Cicadas Appear Only Every 17 Years?

heteropteran: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/heteropteran
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Also Known As Hemiptera • bug • Heteroptera • true bug

Photos

squash bug
ambush bug
Amazonian leaf-footed bug
water strider
diversity among heteropterans
flower bug
milkweed bug
life cycle of a chinch bug
stinkbug
back swimmer
See All Images →

Related Topics and References

Topics

Related Quizzes and Features

Quiz
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Green tree python snake (Chondropython viridis) in a rainforest.
Creepy Crawlers Quiz
vulture. An adult bearded vulture at a raptor recovery center. The Gypaetus barbatus also known as the Lammergeier or Lammergeyer, is a bird of prey and considered an Old World vulture.
Animal Factoids
Mute swan with cygnet. (birds)
Match the Baby Animal to Its Mama Quiz
wasp. A close-up of a Vespid Wasp (Vespidaea) with antenna and compound eye. Hornets largest eusocial wasps, stinging insect in the order Hymenoptera, related to bees.
The Bug-Eyed Quiz
Lion (panthera leo)
Deadliest Animals Quiz
Sea otter (Enhydra lutris), also called great sea otter, rare, completely marine otter of the northern Pacific, usually found in kelp beds. Floats on back. Looks like sea otter laughing. saltwater otters
Animal Group Names
List
Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of yellow fever, dengue, and dengue hemorrhagic fever.
10 Questions About Insects Answered