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Family Artheneidae

Artheneidae - Holcocranum saturejae bug - Chilacis typhae Chilacis typhae bug inside cattail seedhead - Chilacis typhae bug living inside cattail seedhead - Holcocranum saturejae true bug in cattail seedhead - Holcocranum saturejae Tiny bug - Chilacis typhae Bulrush bug - Chilacis typhae
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 Lygaeoidea
Family Artheneidae
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
formerly treated under Lygaeidae
Explanation of Names
Artheneidae Stål 1872
Numbers
2 spp. of 2 genera, both adventive, in our area; 20 spp. in 8 genera total(1)
Identification
Key to species in (2)
Range
Old World group(1), most diverse in the Palaearctic(3)
Food
our species feed on the seeds of cattails (Typha, Typhaceae)(3)
Works Cited
1.Biodiversity of the Heteroptera
Henry T.J. 2009. In: Foottit R.G., Adler P.H., eds. Insect biodiversity: Science and society. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell: 223−263.
2.Seed Bugs and their allies (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Lygaeoidea) of the Canadian Prairie Provinces
David J. Larson, G.G.E. Scudder. 2018. Canadian Journal of Arthropod Identification, 34.
3.Zoological catalogue of Australia: Hemiptera: Heteroptera (Pentatomomorpha)
Cassis G., Gross G.F. 2002. CSIRO Publishing, 751 pp.