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Eremosaldula Vinokurov et Luo, a New Shore Bug Genus (Heteroptera, Leptopodomorpha: Saldidae) from North-Western China

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A new genus, Eremosaldula Vinokurov et Luo, gen. n. with one species E. roborowskii (Jakovlev, 1889), comb. n., the family Saldidae, endemic to North-Western China, is described. The genus belongs to the tribe Saldoidini Reuter, 1912 and is similar to the genera Chartoscirta Stål, 1868 and Rupisalda Polhemus, 1985 with a high elevated callus on the anterior lobe of the pronotum, extending onto the sides of the prothorax. It differs from the genus Macrosaldula Leston et Southwood, 1964 in thickened apical antennomeres and in the pattern of the hemelytra atypical of the tribe Saldoidini (with two pale bands in the anterior and posterior halves of the corium). It also differs biotopically, being a halophilic inhabitant of the shores of salt lakes. The amended description of the type species is given based on new material, and information on the biology is provided.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to F.V. Konstantinov for the photograph of the E. roborowskii specimen from the collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg), and for help in obtaining a permit of Brill Publishing House to use the drawings from R. Cobben’s publication.

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N.N. Vinokurov’s study was supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (project no. 121020500194-9).

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  1. Institute for Biological Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 677980, Yakutsk, Russia

    N. N. Vinokurov

  2. Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urumqi, 830011, Xinjiang, China

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Vinokurov, N.N., Zhaohui, L. Eremosaldula Vinokurov et Luo, a New Shore Bug Genus (Heteroptera, Leptopodomorpha: Saldidae) from North-Western China. Entmol. Rev. 101, 1345–1354 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001387382109013X

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