Contribution to the faunistics of shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Leptopodomorpha) in the Palaearctic Region and the Himalayas Author Vinokurov, Nikolay N. Author Kment, Petr text Zootaxa 2015 4028 3 367 387 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4028.3.3 836cb264-47a8-43cf-a27b-20175f2ca61c 1175-5326 234908 83F82764-BF29-4B54-A016-71D12F398A87 Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876) ( Fig. 1 ) 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 .