Saldula orthochila (Fieber, 1859)

Golub, Viktor B., Vinokurov, Nikolay N., Golub, Natalia V., Soboleva, Viktoria A. & Aksenenko, Evgeniy V., 2021, True bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) from the taiga zone of the mountainous Altai of Russia: the first records and new data on rare species, Ecologica Montenegrina 40, pp. 164-175 : 167

Saldula orthochila (Fieber, 1859)

Fig. 2

Material. Altai Republic, the vicinity of Artybash village, meadow on the right bank of the Oyrok (Third) River , 500 m below the waterfall, 51º47'30.7" N, 87º19'8.2" E, 492 m a. s. l., 30.07.2019 (Aksenenko), 1 male, 1 female .

Distribution. The range is very wide: in the Palaearctic – Eurasian, eastward to the Yenisei River; Middle Asia; northwestern China. India (Kashmir). In Western Siberia it was previously recorded from the Tyumen Province. First record from the Altai Republic and Altai as a whole. The nearest localities in Eastern Siberia are the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Irkutsk Province.

Ecology. In the vicinity of Artybash the species was collected in a humid habitat, on the river bank overgrown with grassy vegetation.

Figures

Figure 2. Habitat of Pachycoleus pusillimus (J. Sahlberg, 1870) and Saldula orthochila (Fieber, 1859) in the environs of village Artybash, Altai Republic (Photo by V.A. Soboleva).