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

Genus Melanaethus

2.7mm borrowing bug - Melanaethus subglaber - female Burrowing Bug - Melanaethus subglaber Melanaethus uhleri (Signoret) - Melanaethus uhleri Melanaethus? - Melanaethus subglaber Melanaethus subpunctatus - female Melanaethus subglaber? - Melanaethus subglaber Melanaethus? - Melanaethus bug - Melanaethus
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
Genus Melanaethus
Explanation of Names
Melanaethus Uhler 1876
Numbers
11 spp. in our area(1) [just 2 in the northeast(2)]
Works Cited
1.American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico
Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.
2.The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America
J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.