Aradus

This article is about the insect genus. For the Syrian island, see Arwad.

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.

Aradus Temporal range: Aptian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Adult female Aradus cinnamomeus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Aradidae
Subfamily:	Aradinae
Genus:	Aradus Fabricius, 1803
Species
200+, see text

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

• 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 brenskei
• 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