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Image of Cimex

Image of Cimex

Description:

This highly-magnified digitally-colorized scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed on the rostral head region of a bedbug, Cimex lectularius. Note the distal anatomical relationships the insect’s skin piercing mouthparts it uses to obtain its blood meal.

Clinical Features:
Created: 2009

Source Information

license
cc-publicdomain
photographer
Janice Haney Carr
provider
Public Health Image Library