Hemispheric: like the half of a globe or sphere.
Hepaticolor: liver-brown [dragon's blood].
Hepatic pouches: applied to caeca pouches; q.v.
Herbivorous: feeding upon plant tissue: a leaf feeder.
Heremetabola: with slight or incomplete metamorphosis, but with a resting stage at the end of the nymph life; specifically the Cicadidae.
Hermaphrodite: an individual in which the characters of both sexes are combined.
Hetero: as a prefix, unequal; different from.
Heterocera: Lepidoptera in which the antenna are of any form other than clubbed at tip: opposed to Rhopalocera.
Heterochrome: of different color: applied to species in which there are two color forms of one sex, one of which is like (homoeochrome), the opposite sex, as in certain Odonata and Lepidoptera.
Heterochrony: an irregular development in point of time, a later stage becoming evident before one that is earlier in ordinary course.
Heterogamy: applied to those cases in which two sexual or a sexual and parthenogenetic generation alternate.
Heterogeneous: a mixture of different forms; abnormal.
Heterogeny: the alternation of sexual and parthenogenetic generations.
Heterogyna: the ants: referring to the different kinds of females, - queens and workers, - as distinguished from males.
Heteromera: Coleopteran in which the anterior and middle tarsi are 5-jointed and the posterior are 4-jointed.
Heteromerous: having an unequal number of tarsal joints on the feet.
Heterometabola: differing among themselves in metamorphosis; but not manifesting abrupt stages.
Heteromorphous: the metamorphosis complete, in abrupt stages, the larva unlike the adult.
Heteronomous: if two parts, compared with each other, are of different quality: differing in development or function.
Heteropalpi: palpi with a different number of joints in male and female, as in some Trichoptera.
Heteroptera: an ordinal term applied to that series of Hemiptera in which the anterior wings differ in texture from the posterior, and the different regions of primaries differ in texture.
Heteropterous: with wings of different texture in different parts.
Heterotypical: a genus, described from more than one species, these differing in structure,
Hexachaetous: Diptera in which the mouth structures have six piercing setae.