Salda littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 54

Salda littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)

= Salda subcoriacea Horváth, 1901

Material examined. ASIAN TURKEY: Antalya province: Patara env., 60 km S of Fethiye, environs of mouth of EŞen Nehri [river], to Mediterranean Sea , 7.v.1991, 1 ♂, Z. Jindra lgt., P. Kment det. ( ZJPC) .

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1901, as S. subcoriacea , types), Oshanin (1908, as Acanthia (Sciodopterus) subcoriacea ), Oshanin (1912, as S. subcoriacea ), Drake & Hoberlandt (1952, as S. subcoriacea ), Hoberlandt (1952a, as S. subcoriacea ), Lindskog (1995), Önder et al. (2006); this paper.

Turkey (not distinguished). Cobben (1960, as S. littoralis subcoriacea ), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001, as S. l. subcoriacea ).

General distribution. Holarctic species, distributed in Europe, in Asia from Anatolia to Tajikistan, northern and south-western China, Mongolia, Japan, and Russian Far East, in Alaska and Canada ( Lindskog 1995; Kis 1996; Lukashuk 1997; Protić 1998, 2009; Vinokurov 2010). The subcoriacea form has been recorded from Greece and Anatolia, but adriatica / subcoriacea -like specimens were examined also from mountains of Kirgizia ( Lindskog 1995).

Comments. The status of S. subcoriacea and its separation from S. littoralis and S. adriatica Horváth, 1887 is questionable ( Cobben 1960, 1985; Péricart 1990; Lindskog 1995).

Identification. Cobben (1960), Péricart (1990), Vinokurov (2010).