Burrowing Bugs (Cydnidae) - 47 Species, Identification & Facts

Amnestus basidentatus

Identification: males metafemoral spine very short (very long in A. pusillus ); females indistinguishable from A. pusio 's

Amnestus pallidus

Identification: Each juga with 5 pegs/spines and beak doesn't extend beyond middle coxa

Amnestus pusillus

Identification: Each juga with 4 pegs or spines (sometimes one with 5, but not both). Males have a long spine on the hind femur and females have a median glabrous area on the abdomen.

Amnestus spinifrons

Identification: Juga each with 5 marginal pegs, beak extending to or past the hind coxae

Ectinopus holomelas

Identification: The large, blackish membrane which occupies about one-half of the hemelytral length permits ready recognition of this genus. eyes bright red , differentiated from its congeners by the lack of punctures on the basal [=top] fourth of th

Bordered Shieldbug

Legnotus limbosus

Length 3.5-4.5 mm. Front margin of head strongly notched ; outer margin of fore-wing pale over the whole or most of the length of the corium (c.f. Legnotus picipes ). Associated with bedstraws ( Galium sp) growing on dry friable soils in sunny situat

Melanaethus noctivagus

Identification: TYPE SPECIMEN [in CAS; kindly imaged upon my request by Rachel Diaz-Bastin; thanks to her, as well as Ken Schneider and David Bettman for their generous help]

Rhytidoporus indentatus

Identification: Good illustrations of head and pleura in Froeschner our only representative of the nominate subgenus that contains 3 more spp.

Forget-me-not Shieldbug

Sehirus luctuosus

Length 5-8mm. A completely black shieldbug, sometimes with a bronzy sheen, wing membrane variable, light or dark. Margins of head and pronotum without bristles. There is a closely-related species present in the UK, Sehirus morio , which seems to be t

Pied Shieldbug

Tritomegas bicolor

Length 5.5-7.5 mm. A distinctively marked black and white shieldbug with a brown wing membrane. Like other members of this family, it is a ground-dwelling species, but may be found feeding on the aerial parts of the main host plants. The sexes can va