Description

Cydnidae is a family of insects Hétéroptères (bugs) underground at all the stages (eggs, larvae, adults), feeding by pricking the roots of plants and by absorbing their sap. Their legs are modified in order to be able to facilitate the digging in the ground, because they move there.

Kinds met in Europe

the European kinds are gathered in 3 subfamilies:

• Cephalocteinae
• Cydninae
• Sehirinae

NonEuropean kinds

There exist other subfamilies diversment distributed. See the kind Scaptocoris Perty, which is a South American kind of Scaptocorinae.