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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Tribe Geotomini

Burrowing Bug - Pangaeus bilineatus Bug - Pangaeus bilineatus Cydnid - Melanaethus robustus Burrowing Bug - Pangaeus congruus Pangaeus Male, Dallasiellus californicus? - Dallasiellus californicus Beetle? - Microporus nigrita Female, Tominotus conformis? - Tominotus conformis - female
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)
Subfamily Cydninae
Tribe Geotomini
Explanation of Names
Geotomini Wagner 1963
Numbers
32 spp. in 7 genera in our area, 45 genera total