- feed
exclusively on the
blood of warm-blooded animals. They are
called cimicids or, loosely, bed bugs,
though the
latter term
properly refers to the most...
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Cimicid Remains Found in
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Entomology Today...
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Alphavirus isolated from
nesting Cliff Swallows,
House Sparrows and from
cimicid bugs in
eastern Colorado for
which the name Fort
Morgan virus was proposed...
-
hematophagous ectoparasites of bats.
These insects are not to be
confused with
cimicid bat bugs,
which are
members of the
family Cimicidae. A
significant relationship...
- Siva-Jothy MT (2006-02-28). "Trauma,
disease and
collateral damage:
conflict in
cimicids".
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society B. 361 (1466): 269–75...
- the only
species being Primicimex cavernis,
which is both the
largest cimicid, and the most
primitive one. It
feeds on bats and was
described from Ney...
- cretres.2018.11.022. S2CID 134744576. Engel, M. S. (2008). "A stem-group
cimicid in mid-Cretaceous
amber from
Myanmar (Hemiptera: Cimicoidea)". Alavesia...
- Siva-Jothy, M. T. (2006) "Trauma,
disease and
collateral damage:
conflict in
cimicids,"
Philosophical Transactions of the
Royal Society B, 361, 269–275. Edward...
- thus
withdrawing 1-28
microlitre blood per day per bat. As in many
other cimicids,
Afrocimex constrictus reproduce through traumatic insemination. During...
