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Species Saldula ablusa

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Leptopodomorpha

Family Saldidae (Shore Bugs)

Subfamily Saldinae

Tribe Saldoidini

Genus Saldula

Species ablusa (Saldula ablusa)

Explanation of Names

Saldula ablusa Drake & Hottes 1954

Size

3-4 mm

Identification

Difficult to distinguish from S. pallipes. The orange-brown color apex of corium and the occasional light stripe on the lateral margin of the pronotum are diagnostic.(1)

Range

QC-ON-SD to NJ-IL(2)

Habitat

Sandy shores of ponds and streams

Works Cited

1.	The semiaquatic Hemiptera of Minnesota (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) Bennett D.V., Cook E.F. 1981. Agric. Exp. Stn Tech. Bull. 332, U. of Minnesota. 59 pp.

2.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

Contributed by Claude Pilon on 25 January, 2016 - 12:42pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 27 February, 2017 - 8:20pm

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