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Bed Bugs
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Bed Bugs

Cimicidae

The Cimicidae are a family of small parasitic insects that feed exclusively on the blood of warm-blooded animals. They are called cimicids or, loosely, bed bugs (or bedbugs or bed-bugs), though the latter term properly refers to the most famous species of the family, Cimex lectularius, the common bed bug. Around 90 species are placed in the family Cimicidae.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Cimicinae

subfamilyCimicinae

Haematosiphoninae

subfamilyHaematosiphoninae

Cacodminae

subfamilyCacodminae

Afrocimicinae

subfamilyAfrocimicinae

Primicimicinae

subfamilyPrimicimicinae

Latrocimicinae

subfamilyLatrocimicinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53667.