reduviid

Meanings

Adjective

• of, relating to, or characteristic of the family Reduviidae

Noun

• any member of the Reduviidae family of insects, which comprises predatory and blood-sucking bugs, including the vectors of Chagas disease

Origin

• Borrowed from Translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius + -idae, from Latin reduvia ("a remainder, remnant, fragment"), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.