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homopteran

NOUN
  1. insects having membranous forewings and hind wings

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  • These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.). Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
  • Benefit to homopterans is tested by manipulating the presence or abundance of ants, and the density of predators is compared between treatment and control groups.
  • These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.). Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
  • Four families of homopterans (aphids, whiteflies, leafhoppers, and delphacid planthoppers), thrips, chrysomellid beetles, and among the acarines, the eriophyd mites, are important vectors of plant viruses and bacteria.
  • More than half of the arthropods were spiders, followed by coleopterans, orthopterans, and homopterans.
  • Other studies have shown a similar association between ant tending level and homopteran survivorship.
  • Both larval and adult lacewings are predators, and are fond of aphids, scales, and other small homopteran insects.
  • At least one study has shown that leaf-chewing insects took longer to recover from defaunation than did other more mobile taxonomic groups, such as homopterans.
  • Reproduction is bisexual among the homopterans, although asexual reproduction occurs in the aphids.
  • More than half of the arthropods were spiders, followed by coleopterans, orthopterans, and homopterans.
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