Rusticus is a Latin adjective meaning "rural, simple, rough or clownish" and can refer to:

Animals

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Aedes rusticus ''Aedes rusticus'', it is a relatively common European mosquito, that is often responsible for human bites from May to August. Like all mosquitoes, it is only the females that bite. Distribution ''Aedes rusticus'' has a patchy distribution, fro ...

'', a European mosquito *

Rusty crayfish The rusty crayfish (''Faxonius rusticus'') is a large, aggressive species of freshwater crayfish which is native to the United States, in the Ohio River Basin in parts of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. Its range is rapidly expanding across much of ...

(''Orconectes rusticus'') * '' Urozelotes rusticus'', a ground spider * a synonym of the butterfly genus '' Plebejus''

People

Saints and martyrs

*Saint Rusticus of Narbonne (died c. 461) * Saint Rusticus (Archbishop of Lyon) (c. 455–501) * One of the martyred companions of Saint Denis (3rd century) * Martyr of Verona (died c. 290): see

Firmus and Rusticus Saints Firmus and Rusticus ( it, San Fermo e San Rustico) (died c. 290 AD) are venerated as two martyrs of Verona. Their unreliable ''Acts'' state that Firmus and Rusticus, kinsmen, were prominent citizens of Bergamo. They were martyred at Ver ...

Other people

Fabius Rusticus Fabius Rusticus was a Roman historian who was quoted on several occasions by Tacitus. Tacitus couples his name with that of Livy and describes him as "the most graphic among ancient and modern historians." Tacitus also said that he embellished matt ...

, 1st-century historian of ancient Rome *

Arulenus Rusticus Quintus Junius Arulenus Rusticus (c. 35 – 93 AD) was a Roman Senator and a friend and follower of Thrasea Paetus, and like him an ardent admirer of Stoic philosophy. Arulenus Rusticus attained a suffect consulship in the '' nundinium'' of Sept ...

, (c. 35–93 AD) consul executed by Domitian * Flavius Rusticus Helpidius, 5th-century Latin poet *

Junius Rusticus Quintus Junius Rusticus (c. 100 – c. 170 AD), was a Roman teacher and politician. He was probably a grandson of Arulenus Rusticus, who was a prominent member of the Stoic Opposition. He was a Stoic philosopher and was one of the teachers o ...

, 2nd-century Stoic philosopher, consul, and friend of Marcus Aurelius {{disambiguation