Aradus
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Family: | Aradidae |
| Subfamily: | Aradinae |
| Genus: | Aradus Fabricius, 1803 |
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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 , which eats fungi growing on burned conifers, and , which occurs in large numbers on burned South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa).[3]
Species include:
Aradus sp., adult
- Aradus abbas
- Aradus acutus
- Aradus aequalis
- Aradus antennalis
- Aradus approximatus
- Aradus basalis
- Aradus behrensi
- Aradus blaisdelli
- Aradus borealis
- Aradus compressus
- Aradus crenatus
- Aradus debilis
- Aradus depictus
- Aradus duzeei
- Aradus falleni
- Aradus funestus
- Aradus fuscomaculatus
- Aradus gracilicornis
- Aradus implanus
- Aradus inornatus
- Aradus insolitus
- Aradus intectus
- Aradus kormilevi
- Aradus lugubris
- Aradus ornatus
- Aradus paganicus
- Aradus parvicornis
- Aradus persimilis
- Aradus proboscideus
- Aradus quadrilineatus
- Aradus robustus
- Aradus shermani
- Aradus similis
- Aradus tuberculifer
- Aradus uniannulatus
- Aradus uniformis
- Aradus vadosus
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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