Cimex lectularius

Translingual

Cimex lectularius

Proper noun

Cimex lectularius m

1. A taxonomic species within the family Cimicidae – a common bedbug, an obligate parasite of humans, of worldwide distribution.
   • 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎^[1] (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

• (species): Hemiptera - order; Cimicidae - family; Cimex - genus

References

• Cimex lectularius on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cimex lectularius on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cimex lectularius on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cimex lectularius at AnimalBase
• Cimex lectularius at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Cimex lectularius at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Cimex_lectularius at Animal Diversity Web
• Cimex lectularius available from http://www.irmng.org at VLIZ.03 Rees, T. (compiler) (2017). The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• “Cimex”, in Paleobiology Database, 2025