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In this paper, we present new data on the genus Macrosaldula Leston Southwood, 1964 based on material held in the collections of the National Museum (Prague, Czech Republic) and the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia). Macrosaldula graziae sp. nov., from South Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, is described. Among the Central Asian species of the genus, it is close to M. tadzhika (Kiritshenko, 1912) by the presence of long erect setae on the body dorsum, but the latter species differs in the smaller body size, the presence of light spots on the corium, and in the structure of the male genitalia. In extremely dark specimens of M. jakowleffi (Reuter, 1891), the hemelytra are opaque, with short erect setae. Siberian M. rivularia (J. Sahlberg, 1878), M. simulans Cobben, 1985 and the Far Eastern M. koreana (Kiritshenko, 1912) and M. violacea Cobben, 1985 are distinguished from the new species by the short pubescence on the dorsum. We provide new distributional data for M. clavalis Cobben, 1985 (Georgia), M. jakowleffi (Reuter, 1891) (China: Xinjiang: Altai Mts.-first record), M. miyamotoi Cobben, 1985 (Japan: Honshu), M. nivalis (Lindberg, 1935) (Afghanistan-first record, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan), M. scotica (Curtis, 1835) (Georgia: Adzharia; Russia: Murmansk District), and M. tadzhika (Afghanistan-first record, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan). The record of M. scotica from Uzbekistan is disconsidered, and the two specimens are referred to M. graziae sp. nov.
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Heteroptera , Animals , Arctic Regions , Fossils/anatomy & histology , Heteroptera/anatomy & histology , Heteroptera/classification , Male , Species SpecificityABSTRACT
New distributional data on 33 species of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha (3 species of the family Leptopodidae and 30 species and subspecies of Saldidae) from the Palaearctic Region and Himalayas are provided. The following new or confirmed records are listed: Chartoscirta cocksii (Curtis, 1835) from Kosovo; Halosalda halophila (Jakovlev, 1876), Saldula amplicollis (Reuter, 1891) and Saldula xanthochila (Fieber, 1859) from Iran; Macrosaldula jakowleffi (Reuter, 1891) from Nepal and Pakistan; Macrosaldula scotica (Curtis, 1835) from Uzbekistan; Macrosaldula variabilis (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1835), Saldula lindskogi Vinokurov, 2004, Saldula opacula (Zetterstedt, 1838) from Afghanistan; Micracanthia ornatula (Reuter, 1881) from Oman; Saldula fucicola (J. Sahlberg, 1870) from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Bulgaria; Saldula lindbergi Lindskog, 1975 from Lebanon; Saldula melanoscela (Fieber, 1859) from Iran and Montenegro; Saldula palustris (Douglas, 1874) and Saldula pilosella hirsuta (Reuter, 1888) from Montenegro; Saldula orthochila (Fieber, 1859) from Afghanistan and Pakistan; Saldula pallipes (Fabricius, 1794) from Montenegro and Nepal; Saldula pilosella pilosella (Thomson, 1871) from Libya; and Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758) from Iran and Nepal. A tabular checklist of Leptopodomorpha of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan is also provided.
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Heteroptera/classification , Animal Distribution , Animal Structures/anatomy & histology , Animal Structures/growth & development , Animals , Body Size , Ecosystem , Europe , Female , Heteroptera/anatomy & histology , Heteroptera/growth & development , Male , Middle East , Organ SizeABSTRACT
Two new species of Miridae, Myrmecophyes bykovi sp. nov. and Scirtetellus medvedevae sp. nov., are described from Xinjiang province of China. Illustrations of the male genitalia, tarsus, and pretarsus; photographs of the dorsal habitus; known hosts; and distributional records are provided for each species. Two new synonymies are established, viz. Chlainydatus laminatus Li & Liu, 2006 = Chlamydatus eurotiae Kerzhner, 1962; and Chlainydatus sichuanensis Li & Liu, 2006 = Chlamydatuspullus (Reuter, 1870). The following 13 species of Miridae are recorded for the first time from China: Camptotylus meyeri Frey-Gessner, 1863, Dicyphus testaceus Reuter, 1879, Liocoris tripustulatus (Fabricius, 1781), Monocris griseolus Putshkov, 1974, Myrmecophyes kiritshenkoi Horvith, 1927, Orthotylus melanotylus Kerzhner, 1962, Phytocoris incanus Fieber, 1864, Psallopsis haloxyli Putshkov, 1976, Psallopsis kallidiicola Konstantinov, 1997, Psallus anticus (Reuter, 1876), Scirtetellus seminitens Horvith, 1904, Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) loginovae Drapolyuk, 1982, and Tuponia (Chlorotuponia) cristifera Drapolyuk, 1982. Also, the following six species of plant bugs are new records for Xinjiang Province: Canptotylidea suturalis (Reuter, 1904), Chlamydatus eurotiae Kerzhner, 1962, Compsidolon punilun (Jakovlev, 1876), Excentricoris pictipes (Reuter, 1878), Glaucopteruin gobicum Kerzhner, 1984, Oncotylus vitticeps Reuter, 1879. Pherolepis aenescens (Reuter, 1901) is indicated for Xinjiang and Liaoning Provinces. Indication of Scirtetellus gudali Kiritshenko from Inner Mongolia (Bai et al. 2006) is considered erroneous.
