Subspecies
The taxonomic
substructure of this species is currently
unclear. Most authors recognize adriatica as a
separate species, but regard subcoriacea as a
synonym of littoralis. This notion is
questionable, because there are no obvious
differences between adriatica and subcoriacea.
Therefore I regard these two as synonyms and
treat this taxon as a subspecies. However,
more work is necessary to corroborate this
issue and all names could be synonyms of Salda
littoralis (therefore I give the synonymies of
both taxa below).
Two subspecies are recognized; only the
nominate form occurs in Germany:
(1) Salda
littoralis littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
(2) Salda
littoralis adriatica Horvath, 1887
Original
description
Synonyms
Synonymy of Salda
littoralis littoralis:
Cimex littoralis Linnaeus, 1758
Salda
littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Salda littoralis littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acanthia zosterae
Fabricius, 1776 or 1777?
Salda flavipes alata Verhoeff, 1891
Salda nevadensis
Wagner, 1960
Salda littoralis piechockii Wagner, 1967
Salda litoralis
auct. (misspelling)
Salda morio auct.
nec Zetterstedt, 1838
Salda flavipes auct. nec Fabricius, 1794
Synonymy of Salda littoralis adriatica:
Salda littoralis
adriatica Horvath, 1887
Salda adriatica
Horvath, 1887
Salda subcoriacea Horvath,
1901
Salda littoralis
subcoriacea (Horvath, 1901)
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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