Species Pentacora salina (Bergroth, 1893)

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• Acanthia salina Bergroth, E. 1893. On two halophilous Hemiptera. Entomologist's Monthly Magazine 2 4: 277-279 [278].

  Type data:

   Lectotype UZMH 15565 ♂, Admiralty Gulf, WA (as Admiralty Gulf, NW Australia).
  Paralectotype(s) UZMH 2♂ 3♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Cobben, R.H. 1980. On some species of Pentacora, with the description of a new species from Australia (Heteroptera, Saldidae). Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 55: 116-126 [116].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

WA: Northern Kimberley (NK)

Ecological Descriptors

Arthropod-feeder, littoral, predator, riparian, volant.

General References

Drake, C.J. & Hoberlandt, L. 1951. Catalogue of genera and species of Saldidae (Hemiptera). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 26(376): 1-12 [5] (catalogue)

Lethierry, L. & Severin, G. 1896. Catalogue Général des Hémiptères. Tome III. Hétéroptères Tingidae, Phymatidae, Aradidae, Hebridae, Hydrometridae, Henicocephalidae, Reduvidae, Saldidae, Apophilidae, Ceratocombidae, Cimicidae, Anthocoridae. Berlin : R. Friedländer & Fils 275 pp. [222] (nov. comb. as Salda salina)

Rimes, G.D. 1951. Some new and little-known shore-bugs (Heteroptera: Saldidae) from the Australian region. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 74: 135-145 [136] (diagnosis)

Schuh, R.T., Galil, B. & Polhemus, J.T. 1987. Catalog and bibliography of Leptopodomorpha (Heteroptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 185: 243-406 [270] (catalogue)

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