- Any hemipterous insect of the genus Redivius, or family
Reduvidae. They live by sucking the blood of other insects, and some
species also attack man.
- A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidae,
noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their
blood; -- called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest
of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different
species of botflies.
- Biting insect - Blood-sucking insect - Malaria carrier - Tropical pest in Samos, Quito etc - Tropical pest in Samos, Quito etc. - Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex
and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the
sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they
puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites,
when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and
swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are
aquatic.
- Blood-sucking insect - Bloodsucker makes mare soar like Pegasus - Bloodsucking fly - Gadfly - Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings
horses, and sucks their blood. - The horse tick or forest fly (Hippobosca).