Definition of Suborder homoptera

1. Noun. Plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Suborder Homoptera

suborder Blattodea
suborder Blennioidea
suborder Brachyura
suborder Carnosaura
suborder Cephalaspida
suborder Ceratopsia
suborder Ceratosaura
suborder Charadrii
suborder Clamatores
suborder Euronithopoda
suborder Eurylaimi
suborder Gorgonacea
suborder Gorgoniacea
suborder Heteroptera
suborder Heterostraci
suborder Homoptera
suborder Hyperoartia
suborder Hyperotreta
suborder Hystricomorpha
suborder Lacertilia
suborder Lari
suborder Lemuroidea
suborder Limicolae
suborder Lipotyphla
suborder Maniraptora
suborder Manteodea
suborder Marginocephalia
suborder Megachiroptera
suborder Megaloptera
suborder Menotyphla

Literary usage of Suborder homoptera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1901)
"... suborder homoptera A curious and important assemblage of insects belong to the Homoptera. Those creatures which we know as leaf-hoppers, tree-hoppers, ..."

2. Biennial Report by California Dept. of Agriculture, California State Commission of Horticulture (1907)
"When winged, their wings differ from the suborder Homoptera in the composition and position of the wing covers and in the direction of the head. ..."

3. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1889)
"ALBERT J. HODGES ; 2, Highbury Place, London, N. NEW VIEWS ON THE SUBORDER HoMOPTERA.—In the ' Entomologist ' (p. 269), Mr. GB Buckton has contributed his ..."

4. A Manual for the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"... cattle are in the habit of rubbing should also be whitewashed or sprayed with kerosene, or strong kerosene emulsion. Suborder HoMOPTERA (Ho-mop'te-ra). ..."

5. Guide to the Study of Insects and a Treatise on Those Injurious and by Alpheus Spring Packard (1878)
"I. Ih'iia! (checks) hollowed out, to receive the first pair of coxae. [Posterior pair of coxa; hinged, provided with femoral grooves.] Suborder HOMOPTERA. ..."

6. Insects Injurious to Vegetables by Frank Hurlbut Chittenden (1907)
"suborder homoptera.—In this group the wings are of uniform thickness and usually slope at the sides of the body, the beak arising from the hinder portion of ..."

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