Saldula palustris (Douglas, 1874)

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 53

Saldula palustris (Douglas, 1874)

Material examined. ASIAN TURKEY: Afyon / Konya provinces: AkŞehir Gölü [lake], 2.ix.1947, 13 ♂♂ 9 ♀♀, Exp. N . Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Ankara province: Şereflikoçhisar env., 10 km N of the city, shore of the Tuz Gölü [salt lake], growth of Salsola sp. , 2.v.2004, P. Kment lgt., N.N. Vinokurov det. ( NMPC) ; Mogan Gölü [lake], 12.vii.1947, 10 ♂♂ 13 ♀♀, Exp. N . Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . EskiŞehir province: Sivrihisar , 7.ix.1947, 1 ♂ 1 ♀, Exp. N . Mus. ČSR lgt., P. Kment det. ( NMPC) . Mersin province: KurtuluŞ near Silifke , 12.– 17.v.1994, 1 ♀, P. Průdek leg., N.N. Vinokurov det. ( NMPC) .

Asian Turkey. Hoberlandt (1952a, as S. arenicola f. simulator and S. pallipes f. dimidiata, misidentification), Seidenstücker (1964); this paper.

General distribution. Europe (including Greece and Bulgaria), North Africa and Afrotropical Region, and nearly entire Palaearctic part of Asia (including Cyprus, Transcaucasia, Iran, and Iraq) ( Lindskog 1995; Benedek 1970; Carapezza 1998; Protić 1998, 2009; Gogala 2003; Kment et al. 2003; Vinokurov 2004).

Comment. Halobiont species (e.g., Péricart 1990). This was omitted from Turkey in the catalogue by Lindskog (1995). The following specimens misidentified by Hoberlandt (1952a) belong in fact to S. palustris : 13 ♂♂ 9 ♀♀ of S. arenicola f. simulator from ‘AkŞehir Gölü’, 10 ♂♂ 9 ♀♀ of S. arenicola f. simulator and 4 ♀♀ of S. pallipes f. dimidiata from ‘Moğan Gölü’, and 1 ♂ of S. arenicola f. simulator and 1 ♀ of S. pallipes f. dimidiata from ‘Sivrihisar.’

Identification. Cobben (1960), Péricart (1990), Lindskog & Polhemus (1992), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000), Vinokurov (2004).