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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)

Family Cydnidae - Burrowing Bugs

Classification · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Food · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

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)

Numbers

43 spp. in 12 genera of 4 subfamilies (9 genera in Cydninae) in our area(1), ~770 spp. in 120 genera worldwide, arranged into 5-7 subfamilies(2)

Overview of our fauna:

Family Cydnidae

Subfamily Amnestinae Amnestus

Subfamily Cephalocteinae Scaptocoris

Subfamily Cydninae

Tribe Cydnini Chilocoris, Cydnus

Tribe Geotomini Cyrtomenus (subg. Cyrtomenus), Dallasiellus (subg. Dallasiellus, Pseudopangaeus), Melanaethus, Microporus, Pangaeus (subg. Homaloporus), Rhytidoporus (subg. Bergthora, Rhytidoporus), Tominotus

Subfamily Sehirinae Sehirus

Size

3-8 mm (NA)(1), 2-20 mm globally(2)

Identification

body usually ovoid, heavily sclerotized, dark, legs often spiny(3)

Comprehensive treatment of the New World fauna in(4), of the ne. US fauna in(5)

Key to FL spp. in(6)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA

Habitat

most are fossorial (=diggers), Sehirus (and members of numerous related Old World genera -vb) mostly on vegetation(5)

Food

take liquid from the phloem vessels, unlike other heteropterans(7) and often feed on roots(2); members of the Sehirinae (and two extralimital subfamilies) feed up on plants(3)

Remarks

adults come to lights, sometimes in large numbers(3)

Print References

(8)

Internet References

Family profile(3)

Works Cited

1.	American Insects: A Handbook of the Insects of America North of Mexico Ross H. Arnett. 2000. CRC Press.

2.	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.

3.	Australian Faunal Directory

4.	Cydnidae of the Western Hemisphere Froeschner, R. C. 1960. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111(3430): 337-680, 13 plates.

5.	The Pentatomoidea (Hemiptera) of Northeastern North America J.E. McPherson. 1982. Southern Illinois University Press.

6.	Literature-based key to Florida "burrowing bugs" (Heteroptera: Cydnidae) Smith R., Holmes A. 2002. ENY 4161/6166 Insect Classification Exercise.

7.	Bugs of the World George C. McGavin. 1999. Blandford Press.

8.	Burrower bugs of the Old World – a catalogue (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae) Lis J.A. 1999. Genus 10: 165-249.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 11 September, 2004 - 12:00pm
Additional contributions by Robin McLeod, Bbarnd, Boris Bueche, v belov, Marci Hess
Last updated 2 October, 2019 - 7:27pm

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