Draft:Aradus brenskei

Aradus brenskei
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Aradidae
Genus: Aradus
Species:
A. brenskei
Binomial name
Aradus brenskei
Reuter, 1884

Aradus brenskei is a species of flat bug in the family Aradidae.

It is found in Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Montenegro, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey and Azerbaijan.

It mostly lives under bark, but can also be seen during the day, feeding on Fomes fomentarius fruit bodies.

Aradus brenskei is deadwood-dependent (saproxylic) and mycetophagous, since its presence is related to the presence of the wood-decaying basidiomycete Fomes fomentarius, on sun-exposed dead or dying standing or lying trees.

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