Prophet tours capital to find bloodsuckers (10)
I believe the answer is:
mosquitoes
'find bloodsuckers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both animals as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'prophet tours capital' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'capital' could be 'quito' (capital of Ecuador) and 'quito' is found within the answer.
'prophet' could be 'moses' (Moses is an example) and 'moses' is located in the leftover letters.
No letters remain.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'to' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mosquitoes that I've seen before include "Flies" , "Carriers of disease" , "Irritating fliers" , "Malaria carriers" , "Bearers of malaria" .)