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Preferred term

Reduviidae  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Assassin Bug
  • Assassin Bugs
  • Bug, Assassin
  • Bugs, Assassin

Note

  • do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111

Scope note

  • A family of winged insects of the suborder HETEROPTERA, called assassin bugs, because most prey on other insects. However one subfamily, TRIATOMINAE, attacks humans and other vertebrates and transmits Chagas disease.

History note

  • 99; use TRIATOMINAE 1979-98

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020064

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