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.94 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 thorax with cog-wheel crest thorax without crest middk coxae nearly touching middle coxae widely separated 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 ] ] ] ] TROPICAL BED BUG BED BUG BLACK BUG MASKED HUNTER Cimex hrmipterus Cimex lectularius Melanolestes picipes Reduvius personatus so. u.s. " TROPICS TEMPERATE AREAS 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 • .

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