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reduviid

re·du·viid

UK/ɹɪˈdjuː.vi.ɪd/ US/ɹɪˈdu.vi.ɪd/ uncommon

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a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals

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Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.

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