Aradus

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Aradus
Temporal range: Aptian–Recent
Aradus cinnamomeus female bialowieza beentree.jpg
Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus
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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:

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Aradus sp., adult
Aradus flavicornis Aradusflavicornis.png
Aradus flavicornis

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