Image of bed bugs
Description:
This highly-magnified scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed on the ventral surface of a bedbugs, Cimex lectularius, head and thorax. Note the distal anatomical relationships of the insects skin piercing mouthparts that it uses to obtain its blood meal.
Clinical Features:
Created: 2009
Included On The Following Pages:
- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Protostomia (protostomes)
- Ecdysozoa (ecdysozoans)
- Arthropoda (arthropods)
- Pancrustacea
- Hexapoda (hexapods)
- Insecta (insects)
- Pterygota (winged insects)
- Neoptera (neopteran)
- Paraneoptera
- Hemiptera (hemipterans)
- Heteroptera (true bugs)
- Cimicomorpha
- Cimicoidea
- Cimicidae (bed bugs)
- Cimex
- Cimex lectularius (bed bug)
- Panarthropoda
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- Janice Haney Carr
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- Public Health Image Library
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