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BUGS: PICTORIAL KEY TO SOME SPECIES THAT MAY BITE MAN Harry D. Pratt and Chester J. stojanovich

i i wings usually well-developed; body e1ongate-oval wings reduced; body broadly-oval

ASSASSIN AND KISSING BUGS-FAMILY REDUVIIDAE BED BUGS-FAMILY CIMICIDAE

I i I middk coxae nearly touching middle coxae widely separated thorax with cog-wheel crest thorax without crest

beak reaching 2nd coxa beak not reaching 2nd coxa

i i fore.wing with 2 yellow spots fore·wing dark in U. S. species 3rd and 4th anlennal 4th antenna I segment

segments equal shorter than 3rd

~ BARN SWALLOW BUG

oeciacus vicarius

j fringe hairs on pronotum longer fringe hairs on pronolum

than, or equal to, width of eye shorter than width of eye

I antenna inserted midway between eye antenna inserted near eye;

and lip of head; beak slender, straight beak stout, curved

BAT BUGS Cimex adjunctus E. N. AM.

Cimex pilosellus w. N. AM.

i KISSING BUG pronotum with anterior margin pronotum with anterior margin Triatoma spp moderately excavated deeply excavated

pronotum constricted behind middle pronotum conslricted before middle

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] ] TROPICAL BED BUG BED BUG

BLACK BUG MASKED HUNTER Cimex hrmipterus Cimex lectularius Melanolestes picipes Reduvius personatus so. u.s. " TEMPERATE AREAS TROPICS

KISSING BUGS: PICTORIAL KEY TO SOME COMMON SPECIES IN THE UNITED ST ATES Harold George Scott and Margery R. Borom

I I about H/4 inch long; connexivum pale about 1-1/8 inch long; connexivum yellow banded less than 1 inch long

Triatoma recurva Triatoma gerstaeckeri

I first femur with I sparse hair first femur with thick hair first antennal segment 10ng.6 '- first antennal segment short

Triatoma lecticularius Triatoma rubida

I _ eyes I small .... eyes large connexivum brown, pale banded or not - -- connexivum yellow banded

~ Triatoma p'rotracta Triatoma ncotomae •