cimicoid

comparative more cimicoid · superlative most cimicoid

1. biologyResembling or being a member of the Cimicidae; buglike.

   The group appears to have a blend of both reduvioid and cimicoid features and is probably an early offshoot of the ancestral heteropteran stock.

   1980, Cedric Gillott, Entomology, →ISBN, page 206

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   As in Scantius, all the immature stages have two-segmented tarsi, but the nymphs are quite different in other respects as they are more cimicoid in outline, paler in colour and the ostioles of the repugnatorial glands are represented by three larger blackish patches.

   1984 November 9, A.J. Prins, “Morphological and biological notes on some South African arthropods associated with decaying organic matter”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume 92, page 109

   During the course of evolution of carnivorous reduviids from the saprophagous Cimicoid stock, the rostrum might have undergone reduction in four to three segments and shortening of segments.

   1999, Dunston Ambrose, Assassin Bugs, →ISBN, page 253