assassin bug

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noun

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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Also called reduviid.

Origin of assassin bug

First recorded in 1890–95

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How to use assassin bug in a sentence

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-Science
Perhaps this is heightened by the contrast between the pretty, trim form of the ladybird and the ugliness of the assassin bug.
Book of Monsters|David Fairchild and Marian Hubbard (Bell) Fairchild

British Dictionary definitions for assassin bug

assassin bug

noun

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

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