Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758

Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2012, The bat bugs (Hemiptera: Cimicidae) from Argentina: geographic distributions, hosts, and new records, Zootaxa 3349, pp. 48-55 : 49-50

Cimex lectularius Linnaeus, 1758

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Tadarida brasiliensis (I. Geoffroy, 1824) or Myotis sp. [ Vespertilionidae ]

ARGENTINA: Tucumán: Dto. Trancas, Tacanas, 25-XI-1947, R. Golbach leg., 1 male [FIML], on bat.

Further records on other hosts

ARGENTINA: Jujuy: San Pedro de Jujuy, 27-IV-1926, Shannon & Shannon leg., 1 male, # 2310 [IES], 1 nymph, # 2319 [IES] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Salta: Dto. Rosario de la Frontera, El Duraznito, 5-XI-1943, Romaña & Abalos leg., 5 males, 4 females, 5 nymphs, # 81 [IMR] (Wygodzinsky 1951); San Miguel de Tucumán, 1950-1951, Abalos, Dávila & Wygodzinsky leg., 3 males, 2 females, nymphs [IMR] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Catamarca: Catamarca capital, V-1928, Geoghegar leg., 1 male, 1 female, # 2362 [IES]; La Puerta, 18-I-1944, Romaña & Abalos leg., 2 females, # 2314 [IES] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Chaco: Villa Angela, 14-II-1950, N.A. Nájera leg., 2 males, 2 females, 3 nymphs [IMR]; Puerto Tirol, Denier leg., 1 female [MLP]; Resistencia, Denier leg., 1 female [MLP] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Córdoba: [city?], 9-V-1933, 2 females, # 581, # 597 [IES] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Mendoza: C.S. Reed leg., 4 females [MHNM] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Buenos Aires: ex Col. Berg, 2 males, 2 females [MLP]; La Plata, 3 males, 4 females, 1 nymph [MLP] (Wygodzinsky 1951); Capital Federal: 6-II-2007, Family Ormello leg., 8 exx. [DIOC].

Note 1: The current bed bug upsurge appears to have started almost synchronously in the late 1990’s in Europe [ England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain], Canada, United States, South Korea, Australia ( Doggett et al. 2004, Boase 2008, Szalanski et al. 2008, Fuentes et al. 2010, and many other authors), and also in Venezuela (Reyes- Lugo & Rodríguez-Acosta 2002), and Brazil ( Criado et al. 2011).

Note 2: After the captures of Cimex lectularius in 1950-1951 (Wygodzinsky 1951), no other later citations were produced in Argentina. No official statistics of cases involving Cimex lectularius exist in Argentina. Other two positive identifications of C. lectularius were made at MACN in the last years, all found in Buenos Aires city, but the specimens were not retained (A. Oliva 2011 pers. com.).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Distribution of bat bugs from Argentina: black circles, Cimex lectularius; red circle inside, on bat.