Reduvius is a large genus of reduviids or

assassin bugs The Reduviidae is a large cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators; most other predatory Hemiptera ar ...

. The masked hunter, ''

Reduvius personatus ''Reduvius personatus'' or the masked hunter is an insect belonging to the assassin bug (Reduviidae) family. The name is because its Nymph (biology), nymphs camouflage themselves with dust. The masked hunter is a predator of small arthropods, inc ...

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. They measure 8–22 mm.''Reduvius''
/ref> They are the largest predatory insects and one of the largest clades of predatory

insect Insects (from Latin ') are Hexapoda, hexapod invertebrates of the class (biology), class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (Insect morphology#Head, head, ...

s. They are found in many terrestrial

ecosystem An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system formed by Organism, organisms in interaction with their Biophysical environment, environment. The Biotic material, biotic and abiotic components are linked together through nutrient cycles and en ...

s and

microhabitat In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species. A species' habitat can be seen as the physical manifestation of its ...

s, ranging from

mammal A mammal () is a vertebrate animal of the Class (biology), class Mammalia (). Mammals are characterised by the presence of milk-producing mammary glands for feeding their young, a broad neocortex region of the brain, fur or hair, and three ...

burrows in the desert to logs in rainforests.

Partial list of species

*'' Reduvius fedtschenkianus'' (Oshanin, 1871) *'' Reduvius jakovleffi'' Reuter, 1892 *'' Reduvius pallipes'' Klug, 1830 *''

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,#Blunt, Blunt (2004), p. 171. was a Swedish biologist and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming o ...

1758 Events January–March * January 1 – Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) publishes in Stockholm the first volume (''Animalia'') of the 10th edition of ''Systema Naturae'', the starting point of modern zoologic ...

) "masked hunter" *'' Reduvius senilis'' Van Duzee, 1906 *'' Reduvius sonoraensis'' Usinger, 1942 *'' Reduvius testaceus'' Herrich-Schaeffer, 1845 *'' Reduvius vanduzeei'' Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1964

References

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