telmophage

telmophage
n. [Gr. telma, pool; phagein, to eat]
(ARTHROPODA)
A blood feeding arthropod that severs skin and blood vessels, causing a small blood hemorrhage so as to feed.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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