1. Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
   - bug, hemipteran, hemipteron

Derived forms: hemipterous insects

Type of: insect

Part of: Hemiptera, order Hemiptera

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