Saldinae

Vinokurov, Nikolai N., Luo, Zhaohui & Lü, Zhaozhi, 2012, Studies of true bugs of Xinjiang, western China. I. Leptopodomorpha: shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae), Zootaxa 3336, pp. 51-61 : 52-53

Subfamily Saldinae Amyot & Serville, 1843

Calacanthia angulos a ( Kiritshenko, 1912)

The species was described from Tibet ( Kiritshenko, 1912) and later recorded from Southern Xinjiang (Aerjin mountain: Leng Shui Spring; Muzitage Peak) ( Chen 1996).

Halosalda lateralis (Fallén, 1807)

Widely distributed in the Palearctic. Within China known from Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Hebei (Chen, Lindskog, 1994).

This halophilous species was collected on the coasts of salty reservoirs, high-mountainous Sairam-Nur (Sailimu Hu) Lake (2000 m) and in semidesert of northern Xinjiang.

In Central Asia H. lateralis is known from Kyrgyzstan (recorded here for the first time), Kazakhstan, and Mongolia. In Kyrgyzstan the only specimen belonging to this species was collected by I.M. Kerzhner on the coast of high mountain salty lake Chatyr-Kel (3530 m a.s.l.); the specimen is now kept in the Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg). In Siberia the species also occurs on the coasts of salty lakes ( Kerzhner, 1973; Vinokurov, 2005).

Material examined: 16 ɗ 19 Ψ, 1 instar V, Borohoro Shan, Sailimu Lake (Sairam-Nur) (44 0 39’47,2” N; 81 0 15’53,5” E), 2073m, 27.VII.2010 (Luo Zhaohui, N. Vinokurov); 1 ɗ 3 Ψ, Aweitan Resevior near rd 216, 22 km S of Altai (47°29'N; 87°51'E), 29.VI.2011 (Yang Hailin).