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Species Saldula pallipes

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 pallipes (Saldula pallipes)

Explanation of Names

Saldula pallipes (Fabricius 1794)

Identification

varies greatly in size and color and tends to grade into many allied species(1)

Range

widely dist: NF-NT-AK to South America & West Indies; Eurasia, Africa - Map (1)(2), the most widely distributed saldid in NA and the world

Works Cited

1.	The semiaquatic and aquatic Hemiptera of California Menke, Arnold S. (editor). 1979. Bulletin of the California Insect Survey, University of California Press, xi + 166 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.

Contributed by Charley Eiseman on 9 May, 2011 - 3:48pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 5 April, 2023 - 5:00pm

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