Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar
BugGuide Gathering
Smoky Mountains
University of Tennessee Biological Field Station
August 8-10, 2008
 
Photos from the gathering
 
Photos from the 2007 gathering in Minnesota

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Pangaeus bilineatus

Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Family Cydnidae (Burrowing Bugs)
Genus Pangaeus
Species bilineatus (Pangaeus bilineatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pangaeus bilineatus (Say)

Synonyms: Cydnus bilineatus Say
Size
5-8 mm
Identification
See guide page for genus--this is apparently the widespread eastern species.
Season
April-May, July-October (North Carolina).
Print References
Swan and Papp, p. 131, fig. 127E--P. bilineatus (2)
Brimley, p. 61, lists P. bilineatus and P. uhleri (no longer valid?) for North Carolina (3)
Internet References
Washington, DC Biodiversity--photos P. bilineatus
North Carolina State University Entomology Collection lists just P. bilineatus from that state, with 245 pinned.
Works Cited
1.How to Know the True Bugs
By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.
2.The Common Insects of North America
By Lester A. Swan, Charles S. Papp
3.Insects of North Carolina
By C.S. Brimley