Concept information
Preferred term
Reduviidae
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
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
In other languages
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Finnish
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petoluteiden heimo
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Reduviidae
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020064
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