Cimex

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See also: cimex

Translingual

Cimex lectularius

Etymology

From Latin cimex (“bug”).

Proper noun

Cimex m

A taxonomic genus within the family Cimicidae – comprising the common bedbug and a few related insects.
- 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎ (in English):
  I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.

Hypernyms

(genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Paraneoptera – superorder; Hemiptera – order; Heteroptera - suborder; Cimicomorpha - infraorder; Cimicoidea - superfamily; Cimicidae - family

Hyponyms

(genus): Cimex lectularius - type species; Cimex columbarius, Cimex dissimilis, Cimex emarginatus, Cimex pipistrelli - selected other species

Derived terms

Further reading

Cimex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Cimex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Cimex on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Cimex at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
Cimex at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Cimex at AnimalBase

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