200+, see text Aradus is a genus of true bugs in the family Aradidae, the flat bugs.

Most Aradus feed on fungi, often in dead trees.

[3] Some species are pyrophilous, associating with burned habitat such as forests after wildfires.

They feed on the particular fungi that grow on burnt wood.

[2] Examples include A. laeviusculus, which eats fungi growing on burned conifers, and A. gracilis, which occurs in large numbers on burned South Florida slash pine (Pinus elliottii var.