Oeciacus vicarius Horvath

Reeves, Will K., Durden, Lance A. & Wrenn, William J., 2004, Ectoparasitic chiggers (Acari: Trombiculidae, Leeuwenhoekiidae), lice (Phthiraptera), and Hemiptera (Cimicidae and Reduviidae) from South Carolina, U. S. A., Zootaxa 647, pp. 1-20 : 15-16

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.158298
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:52622931-7DA7-4EF3-9AB9-47D8E47C9B4C
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6269690
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2738789-7718-EC1A-6D3C-F9CDFED95546
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Oeciacus vicarius Horvath
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Oconee Co., Seneca River Bridge, 7 June 2004, ex Petrochelidon pyrrhonota Vieillot , coll. W.K. Reeves and M.P. Nelder; Hwy 188 bridge, 14 July 2004, ex P. pyrrhonota nest, coll. J. Korecki.

Oeciacus vicarius is primarily an ectoparasite of cliff swallows but rarely infests barn swallow nests (Usinger, 1966). Nestling swallows can die from blood loss due to O. vicarius infestations and Fort Morgan virus was isolated from bugs in Colorado (Krinsky 2002).

We tested three pools of 14 bugs each for West Nile virus antigens. All pools were negative.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Hemiptera
Family	Cimicidae
Genus	Oeciacus

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