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Rusticus is a Latin adjective meaning "rural, simple, rough or clownish" and can refer to:
Animals:
- The rusty crayfish (Orconectes rusticus).
- The gossamer-winged butterfly genus Rusticus, today usually included in Plebejus
- The ground spider Urozelotes rusticus
- Aedes rusticus, a relatively common European mosquito
People:
- Saint Rusticus of Narbonne (died ca. 461)
- One of the martyred companions of Saint Denis
- Martyr of Verona: see Firmus and Rusticus
- Saint Rusticus (Archbishop of Lyon) (ca 455–501)
- Fabius Rusticus, historian of ancient Rome
- Arulenus Rusticus, (c. 35-93 AD) consul executed by Domitian
- Flavius Rusticus Helpidius, a fifth-century Latin poet
- Junius Rusticus, (2nd century) Stoic philosopher, consul, and friend of Marcus Aurelius
- Rusticus Diaconus, 6th century Deacon of Rome
Saint Rusticus (c. 455 – 25 April 501) was the Archbishop of Lyon, since the year 494, the successor of Saint Lupicinus of Lyon (491-494). Later canonized, his feast day is 25 April. He was the son of Aquilinus (c. 430-c. 470), nobleman at Lyon; and a schoolfellow and friend of Sidonius Apollinaris (c. 400), who was a vicarius of a province in Gaul under the father of Sidonius between 423 and 448, and his wife Tullia (born 410), and the great-grandson of Decimus Rusticus and his wife Artemia, and also of Saint Eucherius and his wife Gallia. He was also the brother of St. Viventiolus.
Married before 480 to a daughter (born c. 460) of Ruricius, Bishop of Limoges (then Augustoritum) and his wife Ommance, they were the parents of three children:
- St. Sacerdos, Archbishop of Lyon
- Leontius, Archbishop of Lyon
- Artemia, the wife of Florentinus, born in 485, a Senator, who were the parents of:
- Gondulf of Provence, Duke, Bishop of Metz
- Arthemia, wife of Munderic Vitrey, Pretender of Austrasia
- St. Nicetius, Archbishop of Lyon