Flattened wingless red-brown insect Cimex lectularius with piercing mouthparts. It hides by day in crevices or bedclothes and emerges at night to suck human blood.
Bug of temperate regions that infests esp. beds and feeds on human blood; SYN. bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius.

General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
In entomology, an insect belonging to the order Hemiptera. All these have two pairs of wings with forewings partly thickened.
They also have piercing mouthparts adapted for sucking the juices of plants or animals, the “beak” being tucked under the body when not in use.
They include: the bedbug, which sucks human blood; the shieldbug, or stinkbug, which has a strong odor and feeds on plants; the water boatman and other water bugs. + prikaži više

Type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs; Also called: genus Cimex.
Bedbug
Bed-bug.