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Genus Reduvius

I keep seeing these in my house - Reduvius personatus

Weird insect or sick? - Reduvius personatus

Reduvius personatus, Masked hunter nymph - Reduvius personatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)

Genus Reduvius

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Reduvius Fabricius, 1775.

Explanation of Names

Presumably from Latin reduvia, a hangnail (1).

Numbers

Nearctica.com lists four species.

Print References

Borror, entry for reduvia (1)

Works Cited

1.	Dictionary of Word Roots and Combining Forms By Donald J. Borror

Contributed by Cotinis on 14 February, 2005 - 8:23pm
Last updated 20 August, 2009 - 9:42pm

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