An Eastern Bat Bug collected in Allegany Co., Maryland (5/4/2015). Notes from Richard Orr: This Bat Bug (Cimex adjunctus) resembles the closely related Bed Bug that feeds on humans. However, this species feeds on the blood of bats. Collected by Rebecca Hiller on May 4, 2015 from a Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus).
Close-up of an Eastern Bat Bug collected in Allegany Co., Maryland (5/4/2015).
Eastern Bat Bug in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/4/2022). (c) Emilio Concari, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
Eastern Bat Bug in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/4/2022). (c) Emilio Concari, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Closely related to the Common Bed Bug, but feeds on the blood of bats. Has been documented on Big Brown Bat in Maryland.
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An Eastern Bat Bug collected in Allegany Co., Maryland (5/4/2015). Notes from Richard Orr: This Bat Bug (Cimex adjunctus) resembles the closely related Bed Bug that feeds on humans. However, this species feeds on the blood of bats. Collected by Rebecca Hiller on May 4, 2015 from a Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus).
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Close-up of an Eastern Bat Bug collected in Allegany Co., Maryland (5/4/2015).
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Eastern Bat Bug in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/4/2022). (c) Emilio Concari, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Eastern Bat Bug in Caroline Co., Maryland (10/4/2022). (c) Emilio Concari, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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| Cimex adjunctus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Cimicidae |
| Genus: | Cimex |
| Species: | C. adjunctus
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| Binomial name | |
| Cimex adjunctus Barber, 1939
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Cimex adjunctus, is an ectoparasite found in a wide range of North America.[1] Like other insects in the genus Cimex, C. adjunctus is a temporary parasite that eats blood.[2] Temporary, meaning that they do not linger on their hosts between meals. C. adjunctus feed off of many insectivorous bat species.[2] On more than one occasion, these insects have been found on the wings of Eptesicus fuscus (big brown bat).[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Sasse DB, McAllister CT, Durden LA (2016). "A New Host Record for the Bat Bug, Cimex adjunctus (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Eastern Small-footed Myotis, Myotis leibii (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae)". Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science. 70: 287–288.
- ^ a b Talbot B, Vonhof MJ, Broders HG, Fenton B, Keyghobadi N (May 2018). "Host association influences variation at salivary protein genes in the bat ectoparasite Cimex adjunctus". J. Evol. Biol. 31 (5): 753–763. doi:10.1111/jeb.13265. PMID 29543391.
Further reading
[edit]- Wilson, Nixon A.; Galloway, Terry D. (2002). "The Occurrence of the Bat Bug, Cimex pilosellus (Horváth) (Hemiptera: Cimicidae), in Manitoba, Canada". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Manitoba. 58: 5–7. ISSN 0315-2146.
- Péricart, J.; Golub, V. B. (1996). Aukema, Berend; Rieger, Christian (eds.). Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region, Vol. 2: Cimicomorpha I. The Netherlands Entomological Society. ISBN 978-90-71912-15-3.
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