First records in Italy of the red-listed shore bug Salda henschii (Reuter, 1891) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae)

Fabio Cianferoni; Margherita Norbiato; Marco Dogliotti

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.9

First records in Italy of the red-listed shore bug Salda henschii (Reuter, 1891) (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Saldidae)

Zootaxa. 2017 Mar 6;4238(4):597-598. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.9.

Authors

Fabio Cianferoni¹, Margherita Norbiato, Marco Dogliotti

Affiliation

¹ Natural History Museum of the University of Florence, Zoological Section "La Specola", via Romana 17, I-50125 Florence, Italy. Institute of Agroenvironmental and Forest Biology, CNR - National Research Council of Italy, via Salaria 29,300, I-00015 Monterotondo Scalo (Rome), Italy.. fabio.cianferoni@unifi.it.

PMID: 28603255
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.4.9

Abstract

Salda henschii (Reuter, 1891) is a boreo-montane species of Saldidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) restricted to mountain bogs and streams in central Europe (e.g., Western Carpathians, Alps) and to freshwater wetlands in lowland coastal areas in northern Europe (Fennoscandia); it is a vicariant of the arctic (Holarctic) element S. sahlbergi Reuter, 1875 (Hoberlandt 1977; Schuh et al. 1987; Péricart 1990; Lindskog 1991; Vinokurov 2010).

Keywords: Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae.

MeSH terms

Animal Distribution
Animals
Europe
Heteroptera*
Italy
Trombiculidae
Wetlands