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- Latin · derived fromreduvia“a remainder, remnant, fragment”
- translingual · borrowed fromReduviidae
- English todayreduviid
Borrowed from translingual Reduviidae, from Reduvius (genus name) + -idae (taxonomic suffix), from Latin reduvia (“a remainder, remnant, fragment”), describing the habit of the nymph of Reduvius personatus camouflaging itself with small pieces of debris.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.