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This highly-magnified scanning electron micrograph (SEM) revealed some of the ultrastructural morphology displayed on the ventral surface of a bedbug’s, Cimex lectularius, head and thorax. Note the distal anatomical relationships of the insect’s skin piercing mouthparts that it uses to obtain its blood meal.

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Created: 2009