Genus Amnestus

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Burrowing Bug - Amnestus pusillus - female

bug caught in a water droplet - Amnestus

Burrowing bug - Amnestus pallidus - male

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 Amnestus

Numbers

Nearctica lists six spp.

Size

2.5 mm, our smallest cydnids (1)

Identification

Each clavus meets beyond the tip of the scutellum to form a distinct commissure (1)

Habitat

fossorial

Food

Most spp of cydnids apparently feed on the roots of plants (1)

Remarks

Cydnids are frequently attracted to lights (1)

Works Cited

1.	How to Know the True Bugs By Slater, James A., and Baranowski, Richard M.

Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 6:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 30 July, 2008 - 9:35am

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