Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A.
Author
Reeves, Will K.
Author
Durden, Lance A.
Author
Wrenn, William J.
text
Zootaxa
2004
647
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20
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158298
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158298
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Cimexopsis nyctalis
List
Pickens Co., Clemson College,
September 1940
, ex fireplace wall with chimney swift nest, coll. F. Sherman; unlisted location,
29 June 1988
, ex inside house, coll. J.W. Gillespee; Oconee Co., “Clemson”,
14 September 1913
(Usinger 1966); Seneca,
10 July 1956
, ex house, coll. J. Norton.
Cimexopsis nyctalis
is an ectoparasite of chimney swifts,
Chaetura pelagica
(Linnaeus) (Usinger 1966)
, but occasionally enters homes and bites humans.
Cimexopsis nyctalis
is not known to transmit any pathogens, but other cimicid ectoparasites of birds are vectors of arboviruses (Krisnky 2002).