Aradus

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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.

Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Hemiptera
Suborder:Heteroptera
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Aradus
Temporal range: Aptian–Recent
Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Aradidae
Subfamily: Aradinae
Genus: Aradus
Fabricius, 1803
Species

200+, see text

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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 sp., adult
Aradus flavicornis

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