genus
Aradus
Aradus
Field notes
Aradus is a genus of true bugs in the family Aradidae, the flat bugs. It is distributed worldwide, mainly in the Holarctic. There are around 200 or more species in the genus.
Most Aradus feed on fungi, often in dead trees. Some species are pyrophilous, associating with burned habitat such as forests after wildfires. They feed on the particular fungi that grow on burnt wood. 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).
Species include:
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- Pale-shouldered Flatbug
- Aradus robustus presumed native
- Aradus betulae
- Aradus lugubris presumed native
- Aradus flavicornis
- Aradus betulinus
- Aradus quadrilineatus presumed native
- Aradus falleni presumed native
- Aradus crenatus presumed native
- Pine Flat Bug presumed native
- Aradus aequalis presumed native
- Aradus fuscomaculatus
- Aradus insolitus presumed native
- Aradus inornatus presumed native
- Aradus ornatus presumed native
- Aradus proboscideus
- Aradus duzeei presumed native
- Aradus similis presumed native
- Aradus depictus presumed native
- Aradus funestus
- Aradus abbas
- Aradus acutus presumed native
- Aradus antennalis presumed native
- Aradus behrensi presumed native
Range
Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided