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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Cimicoidea » Bed Bugs (Cimicidae)

Family Cimicidae - Bed Bugs

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Works Cited
Fence Sitter - Cimex adjunctus I am terrified - Cimex lectularius Bat bug or bed bug? - Cimex bat bug? - Cimex Help with identifying bed bug / bat bug / swallow bug Bug 4mm length found in student residence 60 degrees N latitude on Alberta/NT border, Canada - Cimex lectularius Bug Swallow bug, Oeciacus vicarius - Oeciacus vicarius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Cimicomorpha
Superfamily Cimicoidea
Family Cimicidae (Bed Bugs)
Explanation of Names
Cimicidae Latreille 1802
Numbers
15 spp. in 8 genera in our area, 110 spp. in 24 genera total(1)
not yet in the guide: Haematosiphon inodorus (Duges 1892) • Synxenoderus comosus List 1925
Size
4‒12 mm(1)
Identification
(2)
Range
cosmopolitan
Season
year-round
Food
ectoparasites of birds and mammals; most are associated with birds/bats, only Cimex lectularius and C. hemipterus are permanently associated with humans(1)
Life Cycle
multiple generations per year
Works Cited
1.Biodiversity of the Heteroptera
Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.
2.Cimicids of medical and veterinary importance
Hamlili F.Z., Bérenger J.-M., Parola P. 2023. Insects 14,392: 1‒19.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 23 April, 2005 - 12:43am
Additional contributions by v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 1 September, 2023 - 2:08am

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