cone-nosed bug

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cone-nosed bug

(kōn′nōzd′)

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cone-nosed bug - large bloodsucking bug

big bedbug, conenose, conenose bug, kissing bug

assassin bug, reduviid - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals

genus Triatoma, Triatoma - conenoses

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Natural infection of American human trypanosomiasis in two species of cone-nosed bugs, Triatoma protracta Uhler and Triatoma Uhleri Neiva, in the western United States.