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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) » Cydninae » Geotomini » Pangaeus » Pangaeus bilineatus
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Burrowing Bug - Pangaeus bilineatus
Copyright © 2009 Robert Lord Zimlich

Burrowing Bug - Pangaeus bilineatus
Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
June 22, 2009
Is this anything special?
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Contributed by Robert Lord Zimlich on 23 June, 2009 - 9:06am
Last updated 16 July, 2011 - 2:27pm

Moved
Moved from Subgenus Pseudopangaeus.
… v belov, 24 June, 2009 - 2:48am login or register to post comments

Pangaeus bilineatus is my best guess
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… v belov, 23 June, 2009 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

 
Joe's Key
Following the burrowing bug key Joe sent, P. bilineatus is it. Thank you both.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 23 June, 2009 - 10:42am login or register to post comments

Depends on your definition of
Depends on your definition of special. I think they're really cool. It is a Cydnidae, one of the burrowing bugs.
… Joe Zito, 23 June, 2009 - 9:18am login or register to post comments

 
That's Special
I figured it had to be something different.
… Robert Lord Zimlich, 23 June, 2009 - 9:27am login or register to post comments

 
[url=http://entnemdept.ufl.ed
Hereis a link that might allow you to work out the species.
… Joe Zito, 23 June, 2009 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Actually...
... this looks like a true bug. You can tell because the wings make an "x" on the back, instead of a strait line down the middle like a beetle would have.
… Toni Dudley, 23 June, 2009 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

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