Salaciola caliginosa Slater, 1989

Zámbó, András, Baňař, Petr, Kovács, Szilvia & Kondorosy, Előd, 2022, Drymini of Madagascar, with description of a new genus and three new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Rhyparochromidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 62 (1), pp. 211-223 : 220

Salaciola caliginosa Slater, 1989

( Figs 13 , 18 )

Material examined. MADAGASCAR: North and Central East Madagascar: Madagascar-CE 2010 / Ranomafana N. P.; 11-18. xi. / S21°15′22.6″ E047°25′17.8″ / 958m; at light; P. Baňař lgt. (1 specimen without abdomen, MMBC); Madagaskar: 4km W von / Mandroka, 1250m NN / (E von Manjakandriana) / 18°54′43″ S 47°54′51″E / leg. U. Göllner, 28.-31. x. 2003 (2 JJ 2 ♀♀, ZMHB); Madagaskar: 4km W von / Mandroka, 958m NN / (E von Manjakandriana) / 18°54′43″S 47°54′51″E / M. Trýzna lgt, 28.-31. x. 2003 (1 ♀, EHIA); Madagaskar Nord / Région Tsaratanana / N.W. Mangidrano / Analabana / 10 / 20-IV- 1964 / I. 640m-P. Soga // MUSEUM PARIS [blue label] (1 J, MNHN).

Habitat. Collected from northern (Tsaratanana massif) to central eastern Madagascar (Ranomafana NP), in evergreen rainy forests.

Distribution in Madagascar ( Fig. 13 ). This species was known only from Eastern Coast of Madagascar (Perinet = Analamazaotra forest, part of the Andasibe-Mantadia NP) until now (Sඅൺඍൾඋ 1989).

General distribution. Endemic to Madagascar.

Figures

Fig. 13. Distribution of Salaciola species in Madagascar.

Figs 17–24. Dorsal view of Madagascarian Salaciola and Sinierus species. 17 – Salaciola acutangulata Slater, 1994; 18 – Salaciola caliginosa Slater, 1989; 19 – Salaciola nana Bergroth, 1906; 20 – Salaciola signaticornis Linnavuori, 1978; 21 – Salaciola sp. nov.; 22 – Sinierus capensis Dallas, 1852; 23 – Sinierus nudus Scudder, 1984; 24 – Sinierus sp. nov. (Photos by A. Zámbó & P. Baňař).