Antique Engraved Illustration Of The True Bug. Vintage Illustration Of The Bug. Old Engraved Picture Of The Hemiptera.

Antique engraved illustration of the true bug. Vintage illustration of the bug. Old engraved picture of the Hemiptera. Hemiptera from Ancient Greek hemipterus 'half-winged' is an order of insects, commonly called true bugs, comprising over 80,000 species within groups such as the cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, assassin bugs, bed bugs, and shield bugs. They range in size from 1 mm (0.04 in) to around 15 cm (6 in), and share a common arrangement of piercing-sucking mouthparts. The name true bugs is often limited to the suborder Heteroptera. Entomologists reserve the term bug for Hemiptera or Heteroptera, which does not include insects of other orders such as ants, bees, beetles, or butterflies. In some variations of English, all terrestrial arthropods (including non-insect arachnids, and myriapods) also fall under the colloquial understanding of bug. Many insects with bug in their common name, especially in American English, belong to other orders for example, the lovebug is a fly and the Maybug and ladybug are beetles. The term is also occasionally extended to colloquial names for freshwater or marine crustaceans (e.g. Balmain bug, Moreton Bay bug, mudbug) and used by physicians and bacteriologists for disease-causing germs (e.g. superbugs).