Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 53-54

Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)

= Saldula saltatoria f. westhoffi Verhoeff, 1891

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1883), Hoberlandt (1952a, partim; revised!), Lindskog (1995), Önder et al. (2006), Kıyak et al. (2008).

Turkey (not distinguished). Cobben (1960), Péricart (1990, as revised), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001).

General distribution. Holarctic species distributed in Europe, North Africa, Asia from Anatolia to Tajikistan, northern and south-western China (Inner Mongolia, Sichuan), Japan, and Russian Far East, in Canada and the USA ( Lindskog 1995; Carapezza 1997; Protić 1998; Vinokurov, pers. comm.).

Comments. The following specimens, 1 ♀ of S. saltatoria from ‘Kızılviran’, and 1 ♀ of S. saltatoria and 1 ♂ of S. saltatoria f. westhoffi from ‘Alahan’, misidentified by Hoberlandt (1952a), belong in fact to S. pallipes (P. Kment revid.). The remaining specimen, 1 ♂ from ‘Ilgaz Dağları’ (Çankırı / Kastamonu provinces), seems to belong to S. saltatoria as defined in keys by Péricart (1990) and Vinokurov (2004).

Lindskog (1995: 133) wrote: ‘Old, unverified records from Israel, Syria and Egypt may possibly refer to an undescribed species (close to S. lindbergi Lindskog ) known from Israel and Lebanon.’ This, Lindskog’s species, remains still undescribed. We examined one female of Saldula sp. from Turkey: Hatay province: Karaçay, Asi Nehri [river] valley, 6.–8.v.2005, Z. Malinka lgt. (NMPC) ( Fig. 39 ) which stands between S. melanoscela (the shape of pronotum) and S. saltatoria (foretibia pattern) using the keys by Péricart (1990) and Vinokurov (2004). It is possible that our specimen from Karaçay is the same as Linskog’s undescribed species.

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

Figures

FIGURES 38–39. 38—Saldula lindbergi Lindskog, 1975: male (Antalya province: Köprülü canyon, 4.1 mm); 39—Saldula sp.: female (Hatay province: Karaçay, 3.6 mm).