Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876)

Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Kment, Petr, 2015, Contribution to the faunistics of shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha) in the Palaearctic Region and the Himalayas, Zootaxa 4028 (3), pp. 367-387 : 370

Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876)

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Material examined. IRAN: Sistan and Baluchistan: Kahúrak, 130 km ENE of Bam (Locality No. 135, 29 °26′N 59°40′E), 25.–26. iii.1973, 1 ♂ 1 ♀ (brachypterous), Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha, N. Vinokurov & P. Kment det. ( NMPC); Kahúrak (Locality No. 176, 29 °26′N 59°40′E), 23.–24. iv.1973, 1 ♀ (brachypterous), Exp. Nat. Mus. Praha, N. Vinokurov det. ( NMPC).

Habitat. Hoberlandt (1981) described the collecting sites at Kahúrak as follows: Stony and sandy desert, grassy banks of water source and meander of running salty brook in desert; growth of Phragmites australis , Aeluropus littoralis , Desmostachya bipinnata , Seidlitzia rosmarinus , Haloxylon ammodendron , Tamarix mascatensis , Cistanche tubulosa , Fagonia bruguyeri , Stipagrostis plumosa , Tribulus longipetalus macropterus .

Distribution. Widely distributed along coasts of the Mediterranean and Black Seas ( Tunisia, Spain, France, Italy, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Crimea), and from the Turano-Gobian Deserts ( Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) up to Mongolia and western China (Xinjiang) ( Lindskog 1995, Vinokurov et al. 2012, Vinokurov 2014b). New species record for Iran.

Remarks. Halosalda halophila was synonymized with H. halophila (Fallén, 1807) by Puton (1875). Vinokurov et al. (2012) described another new species, H. minuta Vinokurov, Luo & Lü, 2012 from China (Xinjiang). Recently Vinokurov (2014b) restored the validity of H. halophila , finding it to be a senior subjective synonym of H. minuta , and further regarding H. concolor (Puton, 1880) as a junior subjective synonym of H. halophila .

Figures

FIGURES 1 – 6. 1 — Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876), ♂, Iran: Kahúrak (body length 2.94 mm); 2 — Macrosaldula jakowleffi (Reuter, 1891), ♀, Pakistan: Hushe Valley (5.0 mm); 3 — Saldula burmanica Lindskog, 1975, ♂, Nepal: Khangpachen (viz Vinokurov 2012 a) (4.02 mm); 4 — Saldula fucicola (J. Sahlberg, 1870), ♂, Bosnia and Herzegovina: Šipovo (3.63 mm); 5 — Saldula lindbergi Lindskog, 1975, ♂, Lebanon: Nahr al-Kalb (3.85 mm); 6 — Saldula mariae Vinokurov, 1978, ♂, Tajikistan: Hissar Mts. (3.63 mm) (Photo: 1 – 4, 6 — P. Kment, 5 — N. Vinokurov).