Most people tend to call anything with lots of legs a "bug." However, to an entomologist, a "bug" is one of the 35,000 or so species of the order Hemiptera. Hemiptera means "half wing" and refers to the fact that part of the first pair of wings is toughened and hard, while the rest of the first pair and the second pair are membranous. Hemipterans also have modified piercing and sucking mouthparts; some suck plant juices and are plant pests, while others can bite painfully.
Iniversity of California Museum of Pleontology
Iniversity of California Museum of Pleontology
Superfamily: Coreoidea
Families: Alydidae, Coreidae, Rhopalidae
Superfamily: Lygaeoidea
Families: Heterogastridae, Lygaeidae, Rhyparochromidae
Superfamily: Pentatomoidea
Families: Cydnidae, Dinidoridae, Pentatomidae, Plataspidae, Scutelleridae, Tessaratomidae, Urostylididae
Superfamily: Pyrrhocoroidea
Families: Pyrrhocoridae
Superfamily: Reduvioidea
Families: Reduviidae
Superfamily: Cercopoidea
Families: Aphrophoridae, Cercopidae, Machaerotidae
Superfamily: Cicadoidea
Families: Cicadidae
Superfamily: Fulgoroidea
Families: Derbidae, Dictyopharidae, Eurybrachyidae, Flatidae, Fulgoridae, Lophopidae, Ricaniidae
Superfamily: Membracoidea
Families: Cicadellidae, Membracidae