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

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. They measure 8–22 mm.''Reduvius''
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s. They are found in many terrestrial

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s, ranging from mammal burrows in the desert to logs in rainforests.

Partial list of species

*'' Reduvius fedtschenkianus'' (Oshanin, 1871) *''

Reduvius jakovleffi Reduvius is a large genus of reduviids or assassin bugs. The masked hunter, '' Reduvius personatus'', is a well-known example of this genus. They measure 8–22 mm. They are the largest predatory insects and one of the largest clades of p ...

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, 1892 *'' Reduvius pallipes''

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Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, t ...

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Reduvius senilis ''Reduvius senilis'' is a species of assassin bug in the family Reduviidae The Reduviidae are a large cosmopolitan family of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestri ...

'' Van Duzee, 1906 *'' Reduvius sonoraensis'' Usinger, 1942 *'' Reduvius testaceus'' Herrich-Schaeffer, 1845 *'' Reduvius vanduzeei'' Wygodzinsky & Usinger, 1964

References

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