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Bed bug or Bat bug? - Cimex

Bed bug or Bat bug? - Cimex
Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana, USA
August 17, 2015
Size: 5mm
I'm leaning bat bug on this one, but not sure. Helping a friend ID it. It was found on an interior wall, and on the exterior of same wall, they've got a bat house that had its first occupants this summer. This was the best picture I was able to get with the tools on hand, unfortunately.

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Bed bug or Bat bug? - Cimex Bed bug or Bat bug? - Cimex

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Moved from ID Request.

Location does suggest Bat Bug...
However, to differentiate the two we'd need to see fine details, including the antennal segments, the mouthparts and the pronotal fringe hairs. See this image and its associated comments:


 
pronotal setae look long as in the bat bugs, too

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