halotydeus

halotydeus
\\|halō|tīdēəs, -tid-, tīˌd(y)üs\ noun
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from hal- + Tydeus, genus of mites, after Tydeus, Greek mythological hero
: a genus of soft-bodied phytophagous mites that have the front pair of legs modified as sensory organs and that are destructive to legumes and certain other crops in southern Africa and Australia — see sandmite

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