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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Pentatomomorpha » Pentatomoidea » Burrowing Bugs (Cydnidae) » Amnestus

Genus Amnestus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Little Spiky Face - Amnestus pusillus small bug - Amnestus basidentatus Bug - Amnestus pusillus - female Hemiptera ? - Amnestus pallidus Bug - Amnestus Male, Amnestus trimaculatus Froeschn - Amnestus - male Amnestus? - Amnestus Heteroptera - Amnestus pusillus - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Infraorder Pentatomomorpha
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Cydnidae (Burrowing Bugs)
Genus Amnestus
Explanation of Names
Amnestus Dallas 1851
Numbers
6‒7 spp. in our area(1), >50 total
Size
1.6‒4.5 mm(1)
Identification
clavi meet behind scutellum to form a commissure(2)
Keys to spp.: ne NA(2) (4 spp.) • FL(3) (7 spp.)
Range
New World; in our area(1):
A. basidentatus NY‒FL to MO‒TX
A. pallidus ON‒MA‒GA to WA‒CA
A. pusillus ON‒ME‒VA‒LA west to OR
A. pusio s.TX [rare; common & abundant in Mesoamerica]
A. spinifrons ON‒MA‒FL to IA‒TX
A. subferrugineus includeded in a key to FL species
A. trimaculatus FL
Remarks
may be abundant at lights
member of the neotropical subfam. Amnestinae Hart 1919 that contains one more genus
Works Cited
1.Cydnidae of the Western Hemisphere
Froeschner, R. C. 1960. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3430): 337-680, 13 plates.
2.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.
3.Literature-based key to Florida "burrowing bugs" (Heteroptera: Cydnidae)
Smith R., Holmes A. 2002. ENY 4161/6166 Insect Classification Exercise.
Contributed by tom murray on 11 May, 2006 - 6:19pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 13 October, 2023 - 7:24pm

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