haematophagous

Many such vectors are haematophagous, which feed on blood at some or all stages of their lives.

The same is true for T. rajah; nothing is known of its biology except that adults are not haematophagous.

The organism occurs in the red blood cells and is transmitted by natural means through a number of haematophagous species of ticks.

The mouthparts are adapted for piercing and many species are haematophagous as adults, while others are predatory on other insects.

All triatomine nymph instars and adults are haematophagous and require the stability of a sheltered environment where they aggregate.

Several at least are haematophagous, commonly entering the gill cavities of larger fishes and feeding on blood drawn from the gill filaments.

The praniza is usually a replete, haematophagous phase while the zuphea is an unfed benthic dweller phase.

American trypanosomiasis, or Chagas disease, is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a flagellated protozoan transmitted to mammals by haematophagous reduviid insects (1337).

The adeleorins are one-host parasites of invertebrates or vertebrates, or two-host parasites that alternately infect haematophagous (blood-feeding) invertebrates and the blood of vertebrates.

A more serious problem than their bites is the fact that several of these haematophagous Central and South American species transmit the potentially fatal trypanosomal Chagas disease, sometimes called American trypanosomiasis.

Species have been described from all groups of tetrapod vertebrates, as well as a wide range of haematophagous arthropods, which serve as both the vectors and definitive hosts of the parasite.