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Keywords: medical entomology, problems faced by arthropods when locating blood, blood distribution in the skin, platelet aggregation and vasoconstriction, coagulation, diagram of hemostasis and inflammation, inflammation and immunity, salivary properties of hematophagous arthropods, triatomine bugs, Rhodnius prolixus, mosquitoes, Aedes aegypti, Anopheles freeborni, sand flies, Phlebotomus papatasi, tsetse flies, ixodid ticks, Ripicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes dammini, the feeding cavity and tick saliva, tick saliva and host rejection reactions, blood-finding of saliva in hematophagous arthropods, coevolution of hosts and their ecoparasites, coevolution of vector-borne parasites and their vectors