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Sanad Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Nov 21, 2014

Few Minutes ago, While I was in my bedroom with the lights off working on my laptop, I found this insect,that I saw for the first time, moving on my arm, and I was frightened by it because it looks like the kissing bug that transmits Chagas's Disease. So Please help me identify it. By the way, I kept the bug in the freezer, just in case I needed to send it to the corresponding authorities, And if it was the Kissing Bug,aka, Triatominae, Then I will conduct a blood test within the next days to make sure that I wasn't infected by the diseases. Please wish me good results.
Here are photos of it.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Nov 21, 2014

This is a plant-feeding bug of some sort, not a kissing bug. To he best of my knowledge, the only triatome reported from Saudi Arabia is Triatoma rubrofasciata ( a species now widespread, primarily through human transport), and it looks nothing like your specimen - see http://www.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Triatoma+rubrofasciata for an image.

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