Salda muelleri Gmelin 1789

Salda muelleri (Gmelin, 1789)

(Figs. 9; 10; 19; 32; 42, 1)

Gmelin, 1789: 2125 (Cimex); Reuter, 1895: 36 (Acanthia); Oshanin, 1908: 584 (Acanthia); 1912: 88; Drake, Hoberlandt, 1950: 6; Kiritshenko, 1951: 94; Cobben, 1960: 225; Vinokurov, 1979: 62; 1988: 749; Cobben, 1985: 249; Schuh et al., 1987: 285; Lindskog, 1995: 135; Vinokurov, Kanyukova, 1995a: 8; 1995b: 36; Putshkov, Putshkov, 1996: 12.

A Euro-Siberian species.

Distribution (Fig. 42, 1). Judging by the ZIN collection and the literature, the northern border of the species range extends in Russia along the line: Petrozavodsk–Shipitsyno on the Severnaya Dvina River– the Belaya River, a tributary of the Angara River–the Meun River, a tributary of the Nora River– Khabarovsk. In the European part of Russia, the species was recorded in Karelia (Gerd, 1946), Tver Province (Kolosov, 1915; Kuzmina, 1937), and Arkhangelsk, Pskov, Moscow, and Volgograd provinces (Cobben, 1985). In the Asian part, S. muelleri occurs southward of the permafrost zone and is indicated for Irkutsk Province (Kulik, 1965; Cobben, 1985). In Amurskaya Province, the species was first found by A.B. Ryvkin (Vinokurov, 2005b). Cobben (1985) recorded S. muelleri from Knyaze-Volkonskoe Vill. (50 km of Khabarovsk), having erroneously referred this locality to Primorskii Territory. According to the summarized data of Lukashuk (1997), the species is also known from Belarus, Latvia, and Estonia. Kiritshenko (1930b), Cobben (1985), and V.G. Putshkov and P.V. Putshkov (1996) recorded the species from Khmelnitskii, Volynsk, Kharkov, and Donetsk provinces of the Ukraine. Cobben (1985), based on the material from the ZIN collection (material has not been returned), indicated the species for Kazakhstan: Kokshetau Mt., 23.VI.1957 (Asanova), 1 ♀; Turgai, Mugodzhary, near Ber-Chochur, 8.VII.1932 (Luk’yanovich), 1 ♀. Central Europe, Scandinavia (Péricart, 1990; Lindskog, 1995).

Material. Russia. Karelia: Petrozavodsk (Günther). Arkhangelsk Prov.: Shipitsyno, Kotlas, 16.VII.1949 (Stark). St. Petersburg: Olgino Estate of Petersburg Uezd, 20.VI.1901 (Bianchi); Shuvalovo, 25V.1897 (Zuovskii). Leningrad Prov.: Gatchina, 5.VI.1901 (collector not indicated); Zelenogorsk, 1889 (Yu. Wagner); Krupeli Vill. (Luga), 30.VI.1897 (Mazarakii); Lakhta: 1.VII.1904 (Bianchi), 22.VI.1919 (Reichardt); Log Vill. of Luga Uezd, 18.VI–1.VII.1918 (G. Jacobson); Pomeran’e Station, 6 km of Lyuban Station, 10.VII.1911 (Il’in); Sablino, 6.VII.1922 (Bianchi); Svir (Günther);Tigoda, 4.VI.1910 (A. Semenov-Tian- Shansky); Ostrovki Vill. on Neva River, Shlisselburg, 6.VII.1906 (G. Jacobson). Pskov Prov.: Kharlamova Mt., Gdovskii Distr., 15.VI.1898 (Bikhner). Tver Prov.: Bologoe, 5.VII.1905 (collector not indicated). Ryazan Prov.: Kazachii (Ranenburgskii Uezd), 24.VII.1903 (P.P. Semenov). Volgograd Prov.: Sarepta (Becker). Irkutsk Prov.: Belaya River, tributary of Angara River (Gartung). Amurskaya Prov.: Norskii Nature Reserve, near Meun River mouth, 16.VII.2005 (Ryvkin).

Estonia. Khaapsalu (Morawitz); Merrekyul, 7– 10.VII.1904 (Somina); Sillamyae, 25.VI.1890 (Bianchi). Belarus. Vitebsk (Jakovlev coll.); Mogilyov Prov.: Zamostoch’e Station, 14.VI.1900 (Birulya). Ukraine. Rovno Prov.: Krasnoe Vill. (Dubenskii Uezd) (Karavaev), 2 ♀; Chernyakovo (Ostrozhskii Uezd), 1–5.VII.1900 (Neklyudov), 1 ♂; Khmelnitskii Prov.: Kamenets-Podolskii, 9.VI.1908 (Yakubovskii), 1 ♀; Donetsk Prov.: Yarovaya, Svyatogorsk Monastery, 19.VI.1938 (Arnoldi), 1 ♂. Kazakhstan. Semipalatinsk Prov.: Tarbagatai: 95 km ESE of Ayaguz; 25 km ENE of Blagodarnyi, 14–15.VII.1978 (Kerzhner).

A total of 85 specimens were examined.

Biology. According to the literature (Southwood and Leston, 1959; Cobben, 1960; Wróblewski, 1966; Hoberlandt, 1977), the species inhabits wet and boggy meadows, peatbogs, and the clay banks of streams; it demonstrates halophility.