Cimex lectularius

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Cimex lectularius m

  1. A taxonomic species within the family Cimicidae – a common bedbug, an obligate parasite of humans, of worldwide distribution.
    • 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎[1] (in English):
      I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.

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