Saldidae, Amyot & Serville, 1843

Vinokurov, Nikolay N. & Khruleva, Olga A., 2021, Bugs (Heteroptera) of treeless areas of Chukotka (Russia), Ecologica Montenegrina 41, pp. 15-34 : 21-22

Family Saldidae

Chiloxanthus arcticus (J. Sahlberg, 1878) .

Literature. Kiritshenko 1926 [as Ch. pilosus Fall. ], 1960; Matis 1986.

Material. ChnD: lower course of Apapelgyn River (20 km NE of Pevek), 5–22.VII.2011 (ОKh), 17 exs. ChkD: Kolyuchin Bay (Belyaka Spit), 14. VI –21.VII.2015 (NV & AD), 3079 exs. (coll. IPEE).

Distribution and ecology. Tundra zone from the Kola Peninsula to Chukotka, the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and Alaska. Predator. In the vicinity of Pevek, it was collected on a river sandy floodplain. On the Belyaka Spit, it was found only in dry habitats, a particularly high number (more than 800 exs. per 100 trapdays) was recorded on a dry sandy-pebble beach with willow-moss-lichen cover; larvae and adults met together during the entire collection period.

Chiloxanthus stellatus stellatus (Curtis, 1835) .

Literature. Sahlberg 1887 [as Ch. borealis Stål ]; Kiritshenko 1926 [as Ch. borealis Stål ]; Matis 1986; Vinokurov et al. 1988; Vinokurov 2005.

Material. ChnD: lower course of Apapelgyn River (20 km NE of Pevek), 14. VI –22.07.201 1 (ОKh), 22 ♂, 27 ♀ , 9 lar.; Pekiney Hill (1 km S of Pevek), 7–13.VI.2011 (ОKh), 1 lar. ChkD: Kolyuchin Bay (Belyaka Spit), 14.VI–25.VII.2015 (NV & AD), 2101 exs. (coll. IPEE). AD: 40 km SSW Beringovskiy vill., 14.VII.2012 ( AS), 1 ♀ .

Distribution and ecology. Holarctic. Predator. In the vicinity of Pevek, the species was numerous in the valley of the Apapelgyn River, on the floodplain and in the swamp. On the Belyaka Spit, it was collected in biotopes with different moisture; the highest abundance was recorded in the swamp on the coastal plain; adults and larvae met together during the entire collection period.

Calacanthia trybomi (J. Sahlberg, 1878) .

Literature. Kiritshenko 1960; Matis 1986; Marusik 1993; Vinokurov et al. 1988; Vinokurov 2005b.

Material. ChnD: Yanrapaakenay Hill (1 km N of Pevek), 27. VI –26.VII.2011 (OKh), 8 ♂, 14 ♀ ; Pekiney Hill (1 km S of Pevek), 29. VI –1.VIII.2011 (ОKh), 2 ♂, 1 ♀ , 3 lar. ChkD: Kolyuchin Bay (Belyaka Spit), 27. VI –21.VII.2015 (NV & AD), 22 exs. (coll. IPEE) . AD: 40 km SSW Beringovskiy vill., 5–27.VII.2012 ( AS), 9 exs.

Distribution and ecology. Circumpolar arctic. Predator. In the vicinity of Pevek, it was found sporadically in the mountainous part; bugs were quite numerous only in the spotted grass-shrub-moss tundra on the gravelly dry foothills and slopes of the north-western exposure. On the Belyaka Spit, specimens were collected in a zonal grass-dwarf shrub-moss tundra and in a dry sandy seashore bank 1.5– 2 m in height with a forb-grass cover.

Macrosaldula rivularia (J. Sahlberg, 1878) .

Literature. Matis 1986; Vinokurov 2014.

Material. AD: lower course of Anadyr River (22 km above the mouth), 21.VII–5.VIII.2013 (ОKh), 2 ♂, 2 ♀ .

Distribution and ecology. East Siberian-Nearctic. Predator. Collected in a sandy-pebble floodplain with a rare herb-grass cover.

Saldula fucicola (J. Sahlberg, 1970)

Material. AD: 40 km SSW Beringovskiy vill., 10–27.VII.2012 ( AS), 1 ♀ .

Distribution and ecology. Transeurasian. Predator. Along the banks of reservoirs. First record for Chukotka.

Saldula pallipes (Fabricius, 1794) .

Literature. Matis 1986; Vinokurov et al. 1988.

Material. ChnD: lower course of Apapelgyn River (20 km NE of Pevek), 5.VII.2011 (ОKh), 1 ♀. Distribution and ecology. Holarctic. Predator. Collected in a sandy floodplain.

Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Literature. Matis 1986.

Distribution. Holarctic. Predator. Species was noted from the Chaunsky District (Kremyanka), in our materials it is absent.

Salda littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Literature. Kiritshenko 1960.

Material. ChnD: lower course of Apapelgyn River (20 km NE of Pevek), 22.VII.2011 (ОKh), 1 ♂. Distribution and ecology. Holarctic. Predator. Species was collected in a river floodplain.

Teloleuca bifasciata (Thomson, 1871) .

Literature. Marusik 1993; Vinokurov 2009.

Material. AD: 40 km SSW Beringovskiy vill., 10–27.VII.2012 ( AS), 22 exs.

Distribution and ecology. Holarctic. Predator. Species was collected in different habitats: in depressions with abundant vegetation, pebble floodplain, as well as loamy-gravelly plots.

Teloleuca pellucens (Fabricius, 1779) .

Literature. Matis 1986; Vinokurov et al. 1988; Vinokurov 2009.

Distribution and ecology. Holarctic. Predator. Species was found in Chaunsky (Apapelgyno, Ayopechan Isl.) and Anadyrsky (Novo-Markovo vill.) Districts. In our materials it is absent.