Bed Bug Genus And Species

Aedes albopictus a particularly invasive species was recently spread to the New World including the United States by the used-tire trade.

Bed bug genus and species. Cimex lectularius the common bed bug and Cimex hemipterus the tropical bed bug. Oldest remains of insects from bed bug genus found in Oregon. Bed bugs are an insect with flat round shape body and usually have a reddish brown color.

Bed bug infestations have been reported from all over the US and Europe and California is no exception. Unfortunately both of these species can be found in the United States. Cimex lectularius is aptly named.

Sometimes it looks purple or even brown. The distinction is not consistent however and does not exist in most other languages. While the Cimex genus includes 91 species worldwide only 2 species from this genus feed on human blood.

It is more reddish in color just after a blood feeding. These species are not much different from each other but occur in different geographical locations. Since their resurgence in the late 1990s bed.

The term bed bug is applied to 2 species of genus Cimex. Tufted Puffin Fratercula corniculata. Newly discovered genus and species 2010.

The rest have minimal if any recorded information about them due to a lack of contact with humans. The species of bed bug that is a major nuisance to humans is the Cimex lectularius. Molecular evidence places the swallow bug genus Oeciacus Stål within the bat and bed bug genus Cimex Linnaeus Heteroptera.