Epimast

Epimasts are insects of the suborder of bedbugs that feed on the blood of vertebrate and invertebrate animals. This suborder of insects is of great importance for biology, entomology, zoology and epidemiology. Their morphological features cause difficulties in species identification, as it poses the problem of two species having similar morphology. Species of the genus Epimastopoda differ in their body structure, as well as in some systematic issues. These are such closely related species that they cannot be considered separate genera of insects. It must be admitted that this genus of bedbugs does not yet meet our needs and needs in an attempt to divide its representatives into separate species (this is often done by a morphologist, but their existence is rarely confirmed by a zoologist), but this is an important problem for the study of parasitic bedbugs. These problems have been solved in several ways, for example, by using DNA gel systems. To obtain morphological evidence, the genus can only be divided when it is fully understood. Regarding the momentary well-being of epimastes, the following can be said: they have existed since the Neogene (giant endozoophagous spiders from the Carboniferous evidence of this!); they reached their maximum in the Mesozoic; survived the Cretaceous (entered the Cenozoic); they have a modern morphological structure; by the end of the Cretaceous they became extinct as a host, but remained as parasites on dead bodies, etc. About this conclusion they can