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Family Cydnidae - Burrowing Bugs

White-Margined Burrower Bug - Sehirus cinctus

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)

Numbers

43 species in 13 genera in North America (nearctica.com)

Food

family Cydnidae - roots of various plants; genus Sehirus - seeds of mint family

Life Cycle

overwinters as adult beneath leaf litter

Internet References

pinned adult image of Sehirus cinctus, a common and widespread species (Insects of Cedar Creek, Minnesota)

key to Florida species:

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 September, 2004 - 12:00pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Boris Bueche
Last updated 3 May, 2007 - 3:50am

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