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  assassin bug - HighBeam Encyclopedia
ASSASSIN BUG [assassin bug] common name for members of the family Reduviidae, one of the largest and most varied groups belonging to the order Hemiptera (suborder Heteroptera).
Assassin bugs are generally brownish to fl, medium-sized to large insects, with heads that are elongate and narrow compared to the thorax.
In the Southwest assassin bugs of the genus Triatoma are common.
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 assassin bug
assassin bug, common name for members of the family Reduviidae, one of the largest and most varied groups belonging to the order Hemiptera (suborder Heteroptera).
In the Southwest assassin bugs of the genus
bug, in zoology - bug, common name correctly applied to insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, although members of...
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 Search Tuna Report for protozoosis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The infection is usually transmitted via the feces of blood-sucking insect vectors (reduviid bugs).
The infection is mostly found in small mammals (sylvatic cycle), and human disease results from the colonization of the human habitat by some vector species (domestic cycle).
It is caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, one of the kinetoplastid flagellates, transmitted to humans in most cases by insects of the subfamily Triatominae Family Reduviidae known in the different countries as assassin bug, vinchuca, kissing bug, chipo, barbeiro, etc....
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 GAKKEN'S PHOTO ENCYCLOPEDIA "ANTS" : Ant's enemy (2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An assassin bug (Reduviid) catching a Camponotus japonicus ant
Remains of a Formica japonica ant on the back of an assassin bug
A male Camponotus japonicus ant caught by a crab spider (Thonisid)
ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp /INTRODUCTION/Gakken79E/Page_15.html   (138 words)

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