# Chinch bug

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The term **chinch bug** can refer to a few different [North American](/source/North_America) insects:

- *[Blissus insularis](/source/Blissus_insularis)* – the southern chinch bug
- *[Blissus leucopterus](/source/Blissus_leucopterus)* – the true chinch bug
- *[Nysius raphanus](/source/Nysius_raphanus)* – the false chinch bug

All three species are in the order [Hemiptera](/source/Hemiptera), making them true bugs.

- The entire genus *[Blissus](/source/Blissus)* of which there are 16 species in North America.

The term can also be used in the Southern United States to refer to the not closely related [bedbugs](/source/Cimex).

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