Handbook of Medical EntomologyRiley, William A. (William Albert)
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Handbook of Medical Entomology
Riley, William A. (William Albert)
Insect pests; Insects as carriers of disease; Medical parasitology
nn. Body covered with longer hairs; second and
third segments of the antenna of equal
length; side of the pronotum narrowly, but
distinctly, reflexed, fringed with longer
hairs than the breadth of one eye;
hemelytra with the commissural margin
straight and longer than the scutellum,
apical margin rounded towards the exterior
angle. Species found on bats in various
parts of the United States. _C.
pillosellus_ Hov.
mm. Sides of the pronotum neither dilated, nor
reflexed, fringed with less dense and nearly
straight hairs; hemelytra with the apical
margin distinctly rounded. Parasitic on man,
birds and bats. Occurs in the old world,
Brazil and the West Indies. C. HEMIPTERUS
Fabr. (= rotundatus)
ll. Body clothed with rather longer silky hairs;
third and fourth segments of the antenna
somewhat more slender than the first and
second; anterior margin of the pronotum _very
slightly sinuate_ or nearly straight in the
middle, produced at the lateral angles. This
is the species which in American collections
is known as _C. hirundinis_, the latter being
an old world form. It is found in swallows
nests. O. VICARIUS. OECIACUS Stäl
kk. Beak long, reaching to the posterior coxæ;
scutellum rounded at the apex; lateral margins
of the elytra strongly reflexed, apical margin
slightly sinuate toward the middle; intermediate
and posterior coxæ sub-contiguous. This species
infests poultry in southwest United States and
in Mexico. H. INODORUS. HÆMATOSIPHON Champ.
[Illustration: 160. Pselliopsis (Milyas) cinctus (×2). After C. V.
Riley.]
jj. Ocelli present, if rarely absent in the female,
then the tarsus has two segments; or if with three
tarsal segments, the wing membrane with one or two
cells.
k. Beak four-segmented, or with two-segmented tarsi.
ISOMETOPIDÆ, MICROPHYSIDÆ, and some CAPSIDÆ.
kk. Beak three-segmented.
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