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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Kissing Bugs (Triatominae) » Bloodsucking Conenoses (Triatoma) » Eastern Blood-sucking Conenose (Triatoma sanguisuga)

Species Triatoma sanguisuga - Eastern Blood-sucking Conenose

Classification · Other Common Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Life Cycle · Remarks · Works Cited
Cone-nosed bug--Triatoma sanguisuda? - Triatoma sanguisuga Cone-nosed bug--Triatoma sanguisuda? - Triatoma sanguisuga Color Warnings - Triatoma sanguisuga Eastern Blood-sucking Conenose - Triatoma sanguisuga Blood-sucker - Triatoma sanguisuga Kissing Bug - Triatoma sanguisuga Eastern Blood-sucking Conenose - Triatoma sanguisuga Conenose - Triatoma sanguisuga
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)
Subfamily Triatominae (Kissing Bugs)
Genus Triatoma (Bloodsucking Conenoses)
Species sanguisuga (Eastern Blood-sucking Conenose)
Other Common Names
Big Bed Bug, Mexican Bed Bug
Size
16-21 mm
Identification
Medium-sized, boldly patterned in dark brown to black with reddish markings. Beak tapered, not curved, as in Reduvius, and bare(1)(2)
key to spp. in(3)
Range
NH-ON to FL-TX(1)
Habitat
Nests of small mammals; may invade houses. Nocturnal.
Season
Jun-Dec in NC(4)
Food
Blood of mammals, especially Eastern Wood Rat, Neotoma floridana. Also feeds on bed bugs and other insects.
Life Cycle
After mating and finding a host, adults no longer fly; female scatters many eggs after blood meal (usually May-Sep); nymphs have 8 instars and usually take two years to mature (entire life cycle 3 yrs)(2)
Remarks
Sometimes bites humans, and the bite may be severe, causing an allergic reaction
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
2.The Common Insects of North America
By Lester A. Swan, Charles S. Papp
3.Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas' disease
By H. Lent & P. Wygodzinsky
4.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley
Contributed by Cotinis on 24 June, 2006 - 10:11am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 16 May, 2011 - 2:31pm

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