Halotydeus

noun

Halo·​tyd·​e·​us

¦halō¦tīdēəs,

-tid-,

tīˌd(y)üs

: 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

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from hal- + Tydeus, genus of mites, after Tydeus, Greek mythological hero

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