Genus Aradus Fabricius, 1803

Figs 1 C, 3C–D, 4A–B

Aradus Fabricius, 1803 . Systema Rhyngotorum, p. 116. Type species: Cimex betulae Linnaeus, designated by Latreille, 1810 In Considerations Generales sur I`ordre naturel des animaux composant les classes des Crustaces, des Arachnides et des Insectes avec un tableau methodique de leurs genres disposes en families, p. 433.

Piestosoma Laporte, 1833 . Magazine Zoology (Guérin), 2:51, 53. Type-species: Aradus depressus Fabricius, monobasic. Synonymized by Fieber, 1861. Die europaeischen Hemiptera Halbflügler, p. 110.

Diagnosis: Head usually longer than wide, the eyes exserted and located posteriorly with only a short distance before constricted neck region; rostrum usually reaching on to proesternum or longer; pronotum narrow anteriorly, variously dilated, spined, or even lamellate laterally, with four more or less distinct longitudinal carinae; scutellum usually triangular or pentagonal; abdomen finely granular under wings; legs relatively long and slender and without spines.