Studies of true bugs of Xinjiang, western China. I. Leptopodomorpha: shore bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae)
Author
Vinokurov, Nikolai N.
Author
Luo, Zhaohui
Author
Lü, Zhaozhi
text
Zootaxa
2012
3336
51
61
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.281321
78cb64be-5c49-413a-bc0e-35f97653868e
1175-5326
281321
Subfamily
Saldinae
Amyot & Serville, 1843
Calacanthia angulos
a
(
Kiritshenko, 1912
)
The species was described from Tibet (
Kiritshenko, 1912
) and later recorded from Southern Xinjiang (Aerjin mountain: Leng Shui Spring; Muzitage Peak) (
Chen 1996
).
Halosalda lateralis
(Fallén, 1807)
Widely distributed in the Palearctic. Within
China
known from Xinjiang, Inner
Mongolia
, Hebei (Chen, Lindskog, 1994).
This halophilous species was collected on the coasts of salty reservoirs, high-mountainous Sairam-Nur (Sailimu Hu) Lake (
2000 m
) and in semidesert of northern Xinjiang.
In Central Asia
H. lateralis
is known from
Kyrgyzstan
(recorded here for the first time),
Kazakhstan
, and
Mongolia
. In
Kyrgyzstan
the only specimen belonging to this species was collected by I.M. Kerzhner on the coast of high mountain salty lake Chatyr-Kel (
3530 m
a.s.l.); the specimen is now kept in the Zoological Institute RAS, St. Petersburg). In Siberia the species also occurs on the coasts of salty lakes (
Kerzhner, 1973
;
Vinokurov, 2005
).
Material examined:
16 ɗ 19 Ψ, 1 instar V, Borohoro Shan, Sailimu Lake (Sairam-Nur) (44 0 39’47,2” N; 81 0 15’53,5” E),
2073m
,
27.VII.2010
(Luo Zhaohui, N. Vinokurov); 1 ɗ 3 Ψ, Aweitan Resevior near rd 216, 22 km S of Altai (
47°29'N
;
87°51'E
),
29.VI.2011
(Yang Hailin).