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Bed bug, Cimex lectularius🪲

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SpeciesHemipteraCimicidae
Arthropods

🪲Cimex lectularius

Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758

溫帶床蝨（學名：Cimex lectularius），又稱溫帶臭蟲，俗稱床蝨、南京蟲，是臭虫科臭虫属的一個物種。 其最終宿主是人類，是世界上主要的“滋擾害蟲”之一。雖然本物種名為「床蝨」，但其實整個臭蟲總科除了臭蟲科以外，其他物種都與蝽象關係比較密切。 儘管溫帶臭蟲的身上帶有28種可感染人類的病原體，沒有證據證明這些病原體可從溫帶臭蟲感染人類。

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Common Bed Bug
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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classInsecta
  4. ›orderHemiptera
  5. ›familyCimicidae
  6. ›genusCimex
  7. ›speciesCimex lectularius
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  1. classInsects · Insecta
  2. orderTrue bugs · Hemiptera
  3. superfamilyCimicoidea
  4. familyCimicidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumHexapoda
  4. classInsects · Insecta
  5. subclassPterygota
  6. orderTrue bugs · Hemiptera
  7. suborderHeteroptera
  8. superfamilyCimicoidea
  9. familyCimicidae
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lutikka (fi), 빈대 (ko), veggedyr (nb), ágyi poloska (hu), بق فراشي (ar), креватна дървеница (bg) … and 27 more languages
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