Aradus Temporal range:
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Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Aradidae |
Subfamily: | Aradinae |
Genus: |
Aradus Fabricius, 1803 |
Species | |
200+, see text |
Aradus is a genus of true bugs in the family Aradidae, the flat bugs. It is distributed worldwide, mainly in the Holarctic. [1] There are around 200 [2] or more [1] species in the genus.
Most Aradus feed on fungi, often in dead trees. [3] Some species are pyrophilous, associating with burned habitat such as forests after wildfires. They feed on the particular fungi that grow on burnt wood. [2] Examples include A. laeviusculus, which eats fungi growing on burned conifers, and A. gracilis, which occurs in large numbers on burned South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa). [3]
Species include:
Aradus Temporal range:
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Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Aradidae |
Subfamily: | Aradinae |
Genus: |
Aradus Fabricius, 1803 |
Species | |
200+, see text |
Aradus is a genus of true bugs in the family Aradidae, the flat bugs. It is distributed worldwide, mainly in the Holarctic. [1] There are around 200 [2] or more [1] species in the genus.
Most Aradus feed on fungi, often in dead trees. [3] Some species are pyrophilous, associating with burned habitat such as forests after wildfires. They feed on the particular fungi that grow on burnt wood. [2] Examples include A. laeviusculus, which eats fungi growing on burned conifers, and A. gracilis, which occurs in large numbers on burned South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa). [3]
Species include: