Salda micans Jakovlev, 1889

N. N. Vinokurov, 2010, Species of the Genus Salda F. (Heteroptera, Saldidae) of the Fauna of Russia and Adjacent Territories, Entomological Review 90 (6), pp. 727-740 : 736-737

Salda micans Jakovlev, 1889

( Figs. 25–27; 36; 41, 2)

Jakovlev, 1889: 68; Reuter, 1895: 34 ( Acanthia ); Oshanin, 1908: 583 ( Acanthia ); Kiritshenko, 1910: 180 ( Acanthia ); Drake, Hoberlandt, 1950: 6; Kulik, 1965: 410; Vinokurov, 1979: 62, 172; 1988: 749; 2005a: 887; Cobben, 1985: 250; Schuh et al., 1987: 283; Lindskog, 1995: 135; Vinokurov, Kanyukova, 1995a: 8; 1995b: 36; Vinokurov et al., 1998: 173; Vinokurov et al., 2001: 209; Vinokurov et al., 2003: 54.

A Siberian species, was described from Irkutsk Province. It was indicated for the Mongolian fauna for the first time.

Distribution ( Fig. 41, 2). Eastern Siberia, Altai (Tenga: Kiritshenko, 1910).

Material. Russia. Tyva: Shagonarskii Forestry, Ulug-Khem , 2.VIII.1956 (Levin), 3 ♂ . Irkutsk Prov.: Kultuk , V. Jakovlev coll., 1 ♀ (lectotype) . Yakutia: upper Vilyui River, 14–17.VIII.2009 (Popova), 2 ♂ ; Alakit River, right tributary of Olenek River (Stepanov), 1 ♀ ; Mirnyi , 18.VII.2001 (Nogovitsyna, Popova), 1 ♂ ; Badarannakh Station of Yakutsk–Vilyui Track, 100 versts W of Yakutsk , 17.VIII.1926 (Ivanov), 1 ♀ ; Tokinskii Stanovik, Lake Maloe Toko , 22.VII.1990 (Vinokurov), 1 ♂ ; Stanovoi Mt. Range, Nagornyi Vill. , 15–17.VII.1995 (Vinokurov, Yasunaga), 9 ♂, 7 ♀ . Mongolia. Dzavhan Aimak, 15 km S of Toson-Tsengel , 18.VII.1980 (Kerzhner), 3 ♀. Hövsgöl Aimak: Uliin-Daba Pass , 16–17.VII.1975 (Gur’eva), 2 ♂, 1 ♀ ; 10 km SW of Shine-Ider , 20.VII.1975 (Gur’eva), 1 ♀ .

Biology. According to my material, in Central Yakutia this species occurred together with Chiloxanthus stellatus suturalis Jak. and S. sahlbergi in a boggy mossy clearing along the edge of a thawing icefield in the bed of a stream running into the Lena River. In the environs of the town of Mirnyi (Western Yakutia), the species was collected with pitfall traps arranged along a stream in a meso-hygrophitic hummocky bog with the sedge, shrubs of Pentaphylloides fruticosa , and the larch growth. In Tokinskii Stanovik (Southern Yakutia), it was collected on the sandy shore of a walled lake at a height of about 900 m. In northwestern Yakutia, the species inhabits sandy-pebbly shoals of the Alakit River, the right tributary of the Olenek River.