Cimex

See also: cimex

Translingual

Cimex lectularius

Etymology

From Latin cimex (“bug”).

Proper noun

Cimex m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Cimicidae – comprising the common bedbug and a few related insects.
   • 2010 August 7, May Berenbaum, “This Bedbug’s Life”, in The New York Times‎^[1] (in English):

     I was so thrilled to see a live bedbug, I showed it off to every graduate student I ran into that day: Cimex lectularius[,] a small, flat, wingless, brown ectoparasite that hides in cracks and crevices in human dwellings and emerges under cover of darkness to feast on human blood.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Paraneoptera – superorder; Hemiptera – order; Heteroptera – suborder; Cimicomorpha – infraorder; Cimicoidea – superfamily; Cimicidae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Cimex lectularius - type species; Cimex columbarius, Cimex dissimilis, Cimex emarginatus, Cimex pipistrelli - selected other species

Derived terms

• Afrocimex
• Bucimex
• Caminicimex
• Cimexopsis
• Cimicidae
• Cimicinae
• Cimicoidea
• Cimicomorpha
• Crassicimex
• Hesperocimex
• Latrocimex
• Leptocimex
• Paracimex
• Primicimex
• Propicimex
• Psitticimex
• Stricticimex

Further reading

• Cimex on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cimex on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cimex on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cimex at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
• Cimex at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Cimex at AnimalBase