assassin bug


noun
  1. 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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1
First recorded in 1890–95

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assassin bug

noun
  1. any long-legged predatory, often blood-sucking, insect of the heteropterous family Reduviidae

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