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]
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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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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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