Definition & Meaning | English word HÆMATOPHAGOUS

Definitions of HÆMATOPHAGOUS

1. Obsolete spelling of hematophagous.

Examples of Using HÆMATOPHAGOUS in a Sentence

• All triatomine nymph instars and adults are haematophagous and require the stability of a sheltered environment, where they aggregate.
• The large variety of arthropods associated with sloths comprise two distinct feeding guilds – the haematophagous guild, represented by biting flies, mites, and ticks, and the coprophagous guild which comprises a unique assemblage of moths and beetles which utilize the sloth principally for phoresis and whose larval stages feed and develop in the dung of the host sloth.
• Rivnay on the possible utilization of insect attractants and repellents for suppressing the density of harmful insect populations, particularly in the phytophagous cotton leafworm Spodoptera littoralis (Noctuidae, Lepidoptera), the haematophagous bedbug Cimex lectularius (Cimicidae, Hemiptera) and the cereal feeding khapra beetle Trogoderma granarium (Dermestidae, Coleoptera).
• Rodent mite dermatitis (also known as rat mite dermatitis) is an often unrecognized ectoparasitosis occurring after human contact with haematophagous mesostigmatid mites that infest rodents, such as house mice, rats and hamsters.

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