Aradus
Appearance
Aradus Temporal range:
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Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus | |
Scientific classification | |
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 abbas
- Aradus acutus
- Aradus aequalis
- Aradus alaskanus
- Aradus ampliatus
- Aradus antennalis
- Aradus apicalis
- Aradus approximatus
- Aradus arizonicus
- Aradus barberi
- Aradus basalis
- Aradus behrensi
- Aradus betulae
- Aradus blaisdelli
- Aradus borealis
- Aradus breviatus
- Aradus brevicornis
- Aradus brunnicornis
- Aradus carolinensis
- Aradus cincticornis
- Aradus coarctatus
- Aradus coloradensis
- Aradus compressus
- Aradus concinnus
- Aradus consors
- Aradus crenatus
- Aradus curticollis
- Aradus debilis
- Aradus depictus
- Aradus duzeei
- Aradus evermanni
- Aradus falleni
- Aradus froeschneri
- Aradus funestus
- Aradus furnissi
- Aradus furvus
- Aradus fuscipennis
- Aradus fuscomaculatus
- Aradus gracilicornis
- Aradus gracilis
- Aradus hesperius
- Aradus implanus
- Aradus inornatus
- Aradus insignitus
- Aradus insolitus
- Aradus intectus
- Aradus intermedius
- Aradus kormilevi
- Aradus lawrencei
- Aradus leachi
- Aradus linsleyi
- Aradus lugubris
- Aradus marginatus
- Aradus medioximus
- Aradus montanus
- Aradus occidentalis
- Aradus opertaneus
- Aradus orbiculus
- Aradus oregonicus
- Aradus ornatus
- Aradus ovatus
- Aradus oviventris
- Aradus paganicus
- Aradus pannosus
- Aradus parshleyi
- Aradus parvicornis
- Aradus patibulus
- Aradus persimilis
- Aradus proboscideus
- Aradus quadrilineatus
- Aradus robustus
- Aradus saileri
- Aradus saskatchewanensis
- Aradus serratus
- Aradus shermani
- Aradus signaticornis
- Aradus similis
- Aradus snowi
- Aradus subruficeps
- Aradus taylori
- Aradus tuberculifer
- Aradus uniannulatus
- Aradus uniformis
- Aradus vadosus
- Aradus vandykei
References
- ^ a b Larivière, M. C. and A. Larochelle. (2006). An overview of flat bug genera (Hemiptera, Aradidae) from New Zealand, with considerations on faunal diversification and affinities. Festschrift zum 70, 181-214. pg. 190.
- ^ a b Schmitz, A., et al. (2010). Distribution and functional morphology of photomechanic infrared sensilla in flat bugs of the genus Aradus (Heteroptera, Aradidae). Arthropod Structure & Development 39(1), 17-25.
- ^ a b Deyrup, M. and J. G. Mosley. (2004). Natural history of the flat bug Aradus gracilicornis in fire-killed pines (Heteroptera: Aradidae). Florida Entomologist 87(1), 79-81.
External links
- Aradus subgenus Aradus and Aradus subgenus Quilnus. Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
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