Homopteran.
/həʊˈmɒptərə/ Entomology.
With plural agreement. A suborder of Hemiptera n., comprising insects of very various forms, with wings of uniform texture: contrasted with Heteroptera n.
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Homoptera1826
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlvii. 385 He denominated the last of these suborders Homoptera.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xx. 319 The Homoptera have four deflexed wings often of a substance between coriaceous and membranous.
1874 J. Lubbock Orig. & Metamorphoses Insects i. 25 The Homoptera agree with the Heteroptera in the structure of the mouth, and in the metamorphoses.
Derivatives
hoˈmopter n. [ < French homoptère, Latreille]
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of
tree-hopper1836
homopteran1842
homopter1864
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Homopter.
hoˈmopteran n. a member of the Homoptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of
tree-hopper1836
homopteran1842
homopter1864
1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 561/1 Homopterans, Homoptera, the name of an order of insects, dismembered from the Hemiptera of Linnæus, including those in which the wing-covers are of an uniform semi-membranous consistency.
hoˈmopterous adj. belonging to or having the characters of the Homoptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > relating to or characteristic of Hemiptera > belonging to or having characteristic of Homoptera
homopterous1826
homopteran1909
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) IV. xlvii. 385 Very considerable differences take place in the economy of Homopterous insects.
Draft additions 1993
homopteran n. also as adj.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [adjective] > hemimetabolous > relating to or characteristic of Hemiptera > belonging to or having characteristic of Homoptera
homopterous1826
homopteran1909
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Homoptera Homopteran.., a. and n.
1966 Ann. Entomologici Fennici 32 17 Many auchenorrhynchous Homopteran groups match the Cicadellidae in karyological conservatism.
1978 Amer. Naturalist 112 1019 In spite of the efforts by several entomologists, the very rich homopteran fauna of Panama are still rather poorly known.
1988 New Scientist 5 May 47/1 Like aphids and other homopteran insects, jumping plant lice..feed on the sap that flows through the vascular tissues of plants.
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