Salda micans Jakovlev 1889

Salda micans Jakovlev, 1889 (Figs. 25–27; 36; 41, 2)

Jakovlev, 1889: 68; Reuter, 1895: 34 (Acanthia); Oshanin, 1908: 583 (Acanthia); Kiritshenko, 1910: 180 (Acanthia); Drake, Hoberlandt, 1950: 6; Kulik, 1965: 410; Vinokurov, 1979: 62, 172; 1988: 749; 2005a: 887; Cobben, 1985: 250; Schuh et al., 1987: 283; Lindskog, 1995: 135; Vinokurov, Kanyukova, 1995a: 8; 1995b: 36; Vinokurov et al., 1998: 173; Vinokurov et al., 2001: 209; Vinokurov et al., 2003: 54.

A Siberian species, was described from Irkutsk Province. It was indicated for the Mongolian fauna for the first time.

Distribution (Fig. 41, 2). Eastern Siberia, Altai (Tenga: Kiritshenko, 1910).

Material. Russia. Tyva: Shagonarskii Forestry, Ulug-Khem, 2.VIII.1956 (Levin), 3 ♂. Irkutsk Prov.: Kultuk, V. Jakovlev coll., 1 ♀ (lectotype). Yakutia: upper Vilyui River, 14–17.VIII.2009 (Popova), 2 ♂; Alakit River, right tributary of Olenek River (Stepanov), 1 ♀; Mirnyi, 18.VII.2001 (Nogovitsyna, Popova), 1 ♂; Badarannakh Station of Yakutsk–Vilyui Track, 100 versts W of Yakutsk, 17.VIII.1926 (Ivanov), 1 ♀; Tokinskii Stanovik, Lake Maloe Toko, 22.VII.1990 (Vinokurov), 1 ♂; Stanovoi Mt. Range, Nagornyi Vill., 15–17.VII.1995 (Vinokurov, Yasunaga), 9 ♂, 7 ♀. Mongolia. Dzavhan Aimak, 15 km S of Toson-Tsengel, 18.VII.1980 (Kerzhner), 3 ♀.Hövsgöl Aimak: Uliin-Daba Pass, 16–17.VII.1975 (Gur’eva), 2 ♂, 1 ♀; 10 km SW of Shine-Ider, 20.VII.1975 (Gur’eva), 1 ♀.

Biology. According to my material, in Central Yakutia this species occurred together with Chiloxanthus stellatus suturalis Jak. and S. sahlbergi in a boggy mossy clearing along the edge of a thawing icefield in the bed of a stream running into the Lena River. In the environs of the town of Mirnyi (Western Yakutia), the species was collected with pitfall traps arranged along a stream in a meso-hygrophitic hummocky bog with the sedge, shrubs of Pentaphylloides fruticosa, and the larch growth. In Tokinskii Stanovik (Southern Yakutia), it was collected on the sandy shore of a walled lake at a height of about 900 m. In northwestern Yakutia, the species inhabits sandy-pebbly shoals of the Alakit River, the right tributary of the Olenek River.