homopteran - insects having membranous forewings and hind wingsinsect - small air-breathing arthropod Homoptera, suborder Homoptera - plant lice (aphids); whiteflies; cicadas; leafhoppers; plant hoppers; scale insects and mealybugs; spittle insects whitefly - minute insect that feeds on plant juices; related to scale insects plant louse, louse - any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants cicada, cicala - stout-bodied insect with large membranous wings; male has drum-like organs for producing a high-pitched drone spittle insect, spittlebug - small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete leafhopper - small leaping insect that sucks the juices of plants |