First records of bat-associated Cimex lectularius (Cimicidae, Heteroptera) for Armenia and Georgia

Besides humans, the common bed bug Cimex lectularius uses bats as hosts, but no such records were available from the Southern Caucasus. Here, we record the greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) and the lesser mouse-eared bat (Myotis blythii) as hosts of C. lectularius from two Georgian a...

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Main Authors: Astghik Ghazarayan, Tigran Hayrpetyan, Ioseb Natradze, Steffen Roth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-07-01
Series:Caucasiana
Online Access:https://caucasiana.pensoft.net/article/104244/download/pdf/