Salka Dworakowska, 1972

Salka Dworakowska, 1972: 778; Chiang & Knight, 1990: 229; Sohi & Mann, 1994: 31; Zhang, Yang & Huang, 2009: 23 Type species: Zygina nigricans Matsumura, 1932

Salka species may usually be recognized by their distinctive external morphology: Body beige to brownish black. Color pattern brown. Vertex with large median apical spot or with large basal dark area, often extended onto thorax. Pronotum almost entirely dark or with dark posterior margin or entirely pale. Mesonotum with dark lateral triangles or entirely dark. Pygofer lobe with one or two dorsal macrosetae, basolateral setae in distinct group, small or distinctly enlarged.

Pygofer with articulated dorsal appendage and with one or more dorsal macrosetae, group of stout setae scattered at ventrolateral angle of lobe. For a detailed generic description see Zhang et al. (2009). Distribution. Oriental and southern Palearctic.