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Parasitic insect stubs (2 C, 69 P) Pages in category "Parasitic insects" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect ...
Pages in category "Parasitic bugs" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Bat bug; Bed bug; C.
These can be categorized into three groups; cestodes, nematodes and trematodes.Examples include: Acanthocephala; Ascariasis (roundworms); Cestoda (tapeworms) including: Taenia saginata (human beef tapeworm), Taenia solium (human pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium latum (fish tapeworm) and Echinococcosis (hydatid tapeworm)
It is a parasitic insect found in most tropical and sub-tropical climates. In its parasitic phase it has significant impact on its hosts, which include humans and certain other mammalian species. A parasitical infestation of T. penetrans is called tungiasis. Jiggers are often confused with chiggers, a type of mite.
The Cimicidae are a family of small parasitic bugs that feed exclusively on the blood of warm-blooded animals. They are called cimicids or, loosely, bed bugs, though the latter term properly refers to the most well-known member of the family, Cimex lectularius, the common bed bug, and its tropical relation Cimex hemipterus. [2]
Lipoptena mazamae, the Neotropical deer ked, is a fly from the family Hippoboscidae.They are blood-feeding parasites of the white-tailed deer - Odocoileus virginianus in the southeastern United States and Central America, the red brocket deer - Mazama americana in Mexico to northern Argentina, and also an incidental parasite of domestic cattle, Cougars - Puma concolor, and man.
The bedeguar is a good example of a complex community of insects. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The cynipid wasp Periclistus brandtii is an inquiline that lives harmlessly within the bedeguar gall and like Diplolepis rosae itself, is often parasitised by insects referred to as parasitoids or even by hyperparasitoids in some cases.
The term "parasitoid" was coined in 1913 by the Swedo-Finnish writer Odo Reuter, [3] and adopted in English by his reviewer, [4] the entomologist William Morton Wheeler. [5] Reuter used it to describe the strategy where the parasite develops in or on the body of a single host individual, eventually killing that host, while the adult is free-living.