Crossword-Solution: REDUVIID
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| type of bug of the family which includes the assassin bug and the wheel bug | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REDUVIID (5)
The possibility of some of our North American Reduviidæ playing a similar rôle in the transmission of disease should not be overlooked.
Carabid beetles (_Brachinus_, _Calosoma_, _Lebia_, _Harpalus_, _Pasimachus_), and reduviid bugs (_Melanolestes_, etc.) seemed to be especially abundant and available, but habitually avoided possibly because of their noxious qualities.
Chagas found the Reduviid bug, _Triatoma megista_, in the houses of the poorer inhabitants of the Brazilian mining State, and that it attacked the people, more especially the children, at night, biting the face.
Amongst the _Reduviidæ_ one genus is of particular importance, namely the genus Conorhinus, which has a long head and the first segment of the beak very much shorter than the second, and the posterior tibiæ longer than the femora.
Preventive measures are directed against the Reduviid bug, _Triatoma megista_, that transmits the disease.