assassin bug
any of numerous bugs of the family Reduviidae, feeding chiefly on other insects but including some forms that are bloodsucking parasites of mammals.
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Origin of assassin bug
1- Also called reduviid.
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This pattern is reminiscent of ones found in several living assassin bugs, although what advantage the stripes might have provided isn’t clear, Swanson said.
Feast your eyes on this 50-million-year-old assassin bug and its exquisite genitalia | Kate Baggaley | January 20, 2021 | Popular-SciencePerhaps this is heightened by the contrast between the pretty, trim form of the ladybird and the ugliness of the assassin bug.
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British Dictionary definitions for assassin bug
any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae
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