Halosalda lateralis (Fallén, 1807) (Saldidae)

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 : 58

Halosalda lateralis (Fallén, 1807) (Saldidae)

= Acanthia pulchella Curtis, 1835

Asian Turkey. Horváth (1901, as Salda lateralis var. pulchella ), Oshanin (1910, as Acanthia (Acanthia) l.), Oshanin (1912), Lindskog (1995, with?).

Turkey (not distinguished). Cobben (1960), Péricart (1990, no material seen), Kıyak & Özsaraç (2001), Önder et al. (2006).

General distribution. Europe (mostly along the sea coasts), Tunisia,? Anatolia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Central Asia, northern China, Mongolia, and Siberia ( Lindskog 1995, Protić 1998, Gogala 2003). A halobiont species ( Josifov 1957, Péricart 1990).

Comment. Horváth (1901) reported Salda lateralis var. pulchella from Aydın (western Anatolia). The voucher specimen is not present in Horváth’s collection in Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest (D. Rédei, pers. comm.). This record has never been confirmed and Lindskog (1995) listed Asian Turkey with a question mark. The occurrence of this species in Turkey seems probable, especially as it was recorded from Greek Thrace ( Josifov 1957, Cobben 1985), Lesbos Island ( Lindberg 1922b) and Bulgaria ( Josifov 1957), rather near to the Turkish boundaries. However, we cannot exclude also the occurrence of H. concolor (Puton, 1880) , distributed in Spain, France, Sardinia, Tunisia, and Cyprus ( Lindskog 1995), and H. coracina Cobben, 1985 described from Porto Lagos in Greek Thrace ( Cobben 1985, Lindskog 1995).

Identification. Cobben (1960, 1985), Péricart (1990).