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family Reduviidae

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Noun1.family Reduviidae - assassin bugs
Reduviidae
arthropod family - any of the arthropods
Heteroptera, suborder Heteroptera - true bugs
assassin bug, reduviid - a true bug: long-legged predacious bug living mostly on other insects; a few suck blood of mammals
genus Triatoma, Triatoma - conenoses
Arilus, genus Arilus - a genus of Reduviidae


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Chagas disease is caused by the parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi and transmitted by blood-feeding insects in the family Reduviidae, subfamily Triatominae.
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