
Richard Charles Froeschner
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LOCATION: Falls Church, VA, United States
Curator, Hemiptera Section, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Heteropteran, any member of the insect order Heteroptera, which comprises the so-called true bugs. (Some authorities use the name Hemiptera; others consider both the heteropterans and the homopterans to be suborders of the Hemiptera.) This large group of insects, consisting of more than 40,000…
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