World Saldidae: Supplement (1987–2018) to the catalog and bibliography of the Leptopodomorpha (Heteroptera)

Abstract

A supplement to the Saldidae section of the “Catalog and bibliography of the Leptopodomorpha (Heteroptera)” published by Schuh, Galil and Polhemus (1987: Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 323), is provided. A total of 30 genera and 307 species-group taxa (298 species, 9 subspecies) belonging to 3 tribes and 2 subfamilies of extant Saldidae, is recorded for the world. Changes to the 1987 catalogue are documented. The synonymy and type locality of taxa described between 1987 and 2018 are given. Under each genus, species, and subspecies, geographic distribution is broadly categorised following the terrestrial zoogeographic realms of Holt et al. (2013: Science 339). A summary of the geographic distribution of Saldidae genera is provided as well as faunistic lists of species-group taxa by zoogeographic realms.

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“…The infraorder (shore bugs) comprises ca. 380 species in 42 genera and four extant families, including two larger Saldidae and Leptopodidae, both of worldwide distribution, and two rare and highly endemic families, the Omaniidae with four species in two genera, and monotypic Aepophilidae (Schuh and Polhemus 1980;Schuh et al 1987;Schuh and Slater 1995;Polhemus and Polhemus 2012;Larivière and Larochelle 2019).…”

First record of a shore bug (Insecta, Hemiptera, Saldidae) from Gondwana

“…The family Saldidae includes the extant subfamilies Saldinae (Amyot and Serville, 1843) and Chiloxanthinae (Cobben, 1959) plus the extinct Enicocorinae (Popov, 1980). It comprises about 300 extant species (Larivière and Larochelle, 2019) and 20 fossil species, with the fossil record currently extending from the Lower Cretaceous to the Neogene.…”