Species Salda lugubris

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Works Cited

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 Saldini

Genus Salda

Species lugubris (Salda lugubris)

Explanation of Names

Salda lugubris (Say 1832)

Size

Macropters: ♂♂ 5.2-6.4 mm, ♀♀ 6.2-7.1 mm(1)

Range

transcontinental: NF-NT-AK south to FL on the east coast, MT-AZ-Mexico in the west(2)(3)(1)

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.	Checklist of the Hemiptera of Canada and Alaska Maw, H.E.L., R.G. Foottit, K.G.A. Hamilton and G.G.E. Scudder. 2000. NRC Research Press.

3.	Alaskan Heteroptera (Hemiptera): New records, associated data, and deletions Scudder G.G.E., Sikes D.S. 2014. Zootaxa 3852: 373-381.

Contributed by v belov on 23 May, 2010 - 1:02pm
Last updated 19 December, 2014 - 4:00pm

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