Heteroptera (veterinary/medical bugs)

veterinary/medical pests • pests-diseases-weeds

Cimex lectularius - SEM of the ventral anterior part (click on image to enlarge it)
Janice Harney Carr, Center for Disease Control
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Heteroptera (veterinary/medical bugs)

This group includes blood-sucking bugs belonging to the order of Hemiptera like the bedbugs and the kissing bugs.

Note:
This group refers to veterinary and medical pests only, for other groups of Heteroptera see:

• Heteroptera (plant pests)
• beneficial Heteroptera (predators)
• beneficial Heteroptera (weed bioagents)

The following families are currently included under Heteroptera (veterinary/medical bugs):

• Cimicidae
• Reduviidae