Zookeys | 30: 185— | 98 (201 1) A peer-revi iewed open-access journa I doi: 10.3897/zookeys. 130.1563 RESEARCH ARTICLE #Zookey www.zookeys.o rg Launched to accelerate biodiversity research New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with phylogenetic analyses Weiting Zhang", Yunzhi Yao*, Dong Ren’ College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China T urn:lsid:zoobank. org:author:4F8 C0034-AB0C-4839-B6C1-E3C164BD4CA7 * urn:lsid:zoobank. org:author:6286BOBO-BB05-4EFE-9D80-4E4DAFDC770C § urn:lsid:zoobank. org:author:D507ABBD-6BA6-43C8-A 1 D5-377409BD3049 Corresponding author: Yunzhi Yao (yaoyz100@gmail.com) Academic editor: D. Shcherbakov | Received 18 May 2011 | Accepted 4 July 2011 | Published 24 September 2011 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5EBFAD3B-6F27-4324-A8AE- 1A48FBBDOECE Citation: Zhang W, Yao Y, Ren D (2011) New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China with phylogenetic analyses. In: Shcherbakov DE, Engel MS, Sharkey MJ (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: Honouring Alexandr Rasnitsyn. ZooKeys 130: 185-198. doi: 10.3897/zookeys. 130.1563 Abstract A new genus with a new species of Saldidae, Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n., is described and il- lustrated. The fossil specimen was found from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Duolun County, Inner Mongolia, China. Phylogenetic analyses within Saldidae were performed, and the results indicate B. pulchalifer gen. et sp. n. should be assigned to the subfamily Chiloxanthinae. Keywords Saldidae, fossil, phylogeny, Early Cretaceous, China Introduction The Saldidae is a small family of insects belonging to Heteroptera. About 335 extant species have been described in this cosmopolitan family (Schuh and Polhemus 2009). Most saldids are littoral, inhabiting lake shores, beaches and stream banks and they Copyright Weiting Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. 186 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) are predaceous, feeding on small insects and decaying animal materials (Brooks and Kelton 1967). Cobben (1959) proposed a classification of Saldidae, and divided Saldidae into three subfamilies: Aepophilinae, Chiloxanthinae and Saldinae. Schuh and Polhemus (1980) later considered the Aepophilinae to be of family rank based on their cladis- tic and phenetic analysis of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha. At present, Saldidae is divided into two subfamilies, Chiloxanthinae and Saldinae (Schuh and Slater 1995). The phylogenetic analyses concerning relationships within Saldidae (Polhemus 1977, Schuh and Polhemus 2009) present valuable information and conclusions. To date, 6 incontrovertible fossil species in 3 genera have been reported: Oligosal- dina Statz & Wagner, 1950 with three species, O. rottensis, O. rhenana and O. aquatilis, found from Upper Oligocene deposits in Germany; Propentacora froeschneri (= Oreoko- ra froeschneri) found in Miocene Latah Formation in USA (Lewis 1969); Salda exigua Germar & Berendt, 1856 found in Eocene Baltic amber, and Salda littoralis found in Recent Late Glacial clay (Jessen 1923). However, 2 genera assigned to this group previously are not saldids. Leptosalda chiapensis (Cobben, 1971) from Mexico amber was assigned to the subfamily Lep- tosaldinae within Saldidae first, but was later transferred to Leptopodidae by Schuh and Polhemus (1980). Popov (1973) erected a subfamily Saldoniinae in Saldidae with one genus Saldonia and one species S. rasnitsyni Popov, 1973, but later (Popov 1985) transferred the genus to Archegocimicidae, synonymized Saldoniinae under Archego- cimicidae, and added two more species S. sibirica Popov, 1985 and S. maculata Popov, 1985, all from the Lower or Middle Jurassic of Transbaikalia, Russia. Archegocimicidae is similar to Saldidae, and it was assigned to the infraorder Leptopodomorpha (Popov 1985, 1989, Popov et al. 1994). Polhemus (1977) thought Sa/donia probably should be classified into Dipsocoridae based on its wing venation. Cobben (1987) didn’t con- sider this genus as a member of the infraorder Leptopodomorpha, but he didn’t give detailed explanation. In this paper, we described a new fossil shore bug, Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n., from the Yixian Formation, Baitugou, Nanyingpan Village, Sanbeigou Town, Duolun County, Inner Mongolia, China. Xing et al. (2005) and Zhang et al. (2004), respectively, based on isotope data and abundant statistical analysis of fossils data came to the consistent opinion that the age of the Yixian Formation is Early Cretaceous. And this opinion has been accepted widely (Swisher et al. 1999, Lu 2000, Zhou et al. 2003, Fiirsich et al. 2007). Here we consider the age of the Yixian Formation as the Early Cretaceous (about 125 Ma). Material and methods Our fossil specimen is deposited in the Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution and Envi- ronmental Changes, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. It was examined with the LEICA MZ 12.5 dissecting microscope. The specimens were examined without al- New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China... 187 cohol and under alcohol. Photos were taken by a Nikon Digital Camera DXM1200C. Line drawings were made with Photoshop graphic software. Morphological terminol- ogy used here follows that of Schuh and Slater (1995). The body length was measured from the apex of head to the apex of abdomen; body width, at the maximal width of body; pronotum length, along the midline; pro- notum width, across the broadest part at its posterior angles; wing length, from the basal to the apex of anterior margin; wing width, at the maximal width of the wing. All measurements are in millimeters (mm). Systematic paleontology Order Hemiptera Linnaeus, 1758 Suborder Heteroptera Latreille, 1810 Infraorder Leptopodomorpha Popov, 1971 Family Saldidae Amyot & Serville, 1843 Subfamily Chiloxanthinae Cobben, 1959 Brevrimatus gen. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B57D 1B53-16FE-421A-BCAG6-8F3141142A84 http://species-id.net/wiki/Brevrimatus Type species. Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. Diagnosis. Body ovate, moderate in size, macropterous. Head relatively short. Rostrum reaching to the base of hind coxae. Corium with large pale spots, medial fracture short, costal fracture of hemelytra very long, hypocostal ridge and associated secondary hypocostal ridge present on hemelytra, membrane with five closed cells. Posterior margin of female sternum VII concave along the midline. Base of ovipositor exposed. Etymology. The generic name is a combination of the Latin prefix “brev-” (short) and Latin word “rimatus” (fracture), which indicated the genus with short medial fracture. Gender masculine. Distribution. China. Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:80999 FB3-E52E-459A-8A25-46CEAF6D947E http://species-id.net/wiki/Brevrimatus_pulchalifer Figs 1, 2 Type material. Holotype, 2, CNU-HET-ND2010334 p/c (part and counterpart). Type locality and horizon. Baitugou, Nanyingpan Village, Sanbeigou Town, Du- olun County, Inner Mongolia, China, Yixian Formation. Early Cretaceous. 188 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) Figure |. Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n., line drawings. Holotype, CNU-HET-ND2010334 p/c. A dorsal view B ventral view. Scale bar=2 mm. Diagnosis. Head relatively short. The last segment of antennae slightly swollen. Corium with three large pale spots, medial fracture short, costal fracture of hemelytra very long; membrane with five cells, apex of innermost cell of membrane extending past apex of outermost cell. Posterior margin of female sternum VII extremely concave along the midline. Description. Body ovate, about 2.4 times as long as wide. Head 1.4 times as wide as long. Antennae slender, 4-segmented, first segment shortest, second segment longest, 1.47 times as long as the third segment, fourth seg- ment slightly shorter than third segment. Eyes reniform, moderately protrusive, lo- cated at the posterolateral angles of the head. Ocelli round, raised slightly, ocelli sepa- rated by 1.3 times the width of an ocellus, ocelli closer to each other than to margins of eyes. Rostrum reaching to the hind coxae. Length of head subequal to the length of pronotum on midline. Pronotum transverse, 3.2 times as wide as long, Anterior and posterior margins of pronotum concave, lateral margins straight, anterior and posterior angles feebly round- ed. Scutellum distinctly longer than pronotum on midline, triangular, 1.3 times as wide as long. ‘Tarsal formula: 3-3-3. Fore tibiae about 2.0 times as long as correspond- ing tarsi, fore tarsomere I shortest, tarsomeres II and III almost subequal in length; mid femora 1.3 times as long as tibiae, tibiae 2.3 times as long as tarsi, tarsomere | shortest, tarsomere II slightly longer than tarsomere III; hind tibiae long, almost 1.5 times as long as hind femora, and 2.3 times as long as tarsi. Fore wing macropterous, 0.6 times as long as body; corium and membrane clearly delimited; corium with embolium; New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China... 189 Figure 2. Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n., photographs. Holotype, CNU-HET-ND2010334 p/c. A part and B counterpart. Scale bar=2 mm. medial fracture short, 0.3 times as long as fore wing; costal fracture of hemelytra very long, reaching to the middle of the corium; venation of corium weakly indicated; membrane large, with five closed cells, cells reduced gradually from the inner to the outer. Claval commissure shorter than scutellum length at median line. Hemelytra with only slight modification for mating, the embolar region slightly thickened. Anterior margin of female sternum VII curve; posterior margin of female sternum VII extremely concave along the midline. Base of ovipositor exposed ventrally. Measurements (in mm). Body length 8.00, width 3.18. Head length 0.84, width 1.24. Antennal measurements I-IV: 0.56, 1.30, 0.92, 0.85. Interocular space of ocelli 0.12. Interocular space of eyes 0.84. Pronotum length 0.78, width 2.52. Scutellum length 1.43, width 1.78. Length fore leg: tibia 1.22, tarsomeres I-III: 0.13, 0.23, 0.23; length mid leg: femur 1.91, tibia 1.57, tarsomeres I-III: 0.18, 0.27, 0.23; length hind leg: femur 2.14, tibia 3.15, tarsomeres I-III: 0.22, 0.69, 0.52. Hemelytron length 5.14, width 1.73. Etymology. ‘The species name is a combination of the Latin prefix “pulch-” (beau- tiful) and Latin word “alifer” (wing), meaning beautiful wing. Gender masculine. Discussion The Leptopodomorpha consists of four extant families (Saldidae, Aepophilidae, Lep- topodidae, Omaniidae) and three extinct families (Archegocimicidae, Mesolygaeidae, Palaeoleptidae). Popov et al. (1994) synonymized Mesolygaeidae to Archegocimicidae. 190 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) But herein we think it is better to treat them as two separated families, because of their distinct difference in forewing. We compared our fossil with all the families in Leptopodomorpha. The body sizes of aepophilids and omaniids are less than 2mm, while the new species reaches to 8mm, much larger than aepophilids and omaniids. In Leptopodidae, rostrum at most reaches to the base of the fore coxae, while rostrum of the new species reaches to the base of the hind coxae. Besides that, anterior margin of pronotum is distinctly narrower than head in Leptopodidae, but anterior margin of pronotum of the new species is almost as wide as head. All the extinct families from Mesozoic are contemporaneous with the new fossil species. But they are different in some characters. Nine cells present in Archegocimicidae (Handlirsch 1906-1908), and the arrangement of the cells (Popov 1985) are totally different from the new species. Fore wing of Palaeoleptidae is nearly completely coriaceous except for small membrane (Poinar and Buckley 2009), which is different from the new species with large mem- brane. And wing venation consists of eight cells in Palaeoleptidae, which differs from the new species with five cells. The pronotum of Mesolygaeidae is divided into two parts (Zhang 1991), but in the new species no groove present on pronotum. ‘The struc- ture of end of abdomen is also different between the new species and mesolygaeids. So we classified our fossil into Saldidae based on the combined characters: compound eyes large and reniform, rostrum long, posterior margin of pronotum indented, hemelytra with costal fracture, medial fracture well developed and membrane with five cells. Phylogenetic analysis The new genus possesses some typical Chiloxanthinae characters, such as costal fracture very long, female sternum VII truncate with mesal concavity and base of ovipositor exposed. On the other hand, it possesses short medial fracture as Saldinae. Therefore, we carried out phylogenetic analyses to determine the placement of our new genus. For the phylogenetic analyses, we selected three extant genera from Chiloxanthi- nae, five extant genera from Saldinae, our new fossil genus, and an unambiguous fossil species Oligosaldina aquatilis as in-group. Following previous studies (Polhemus 1977, Schuh and Polhemus 1980, 2009), we chose representatives from the family Leptopo- didae (Patapius thaiensis Cobben, 1968) and Aepophilidae (Aepophilus bonnairei Si- enoret, 1879) as our out-group taxa. The 12 taxa that we chose for these phylogenetic analyses are listed in Table 1. We carried out phylogenetic analyses respectively with the fossil taxon O. aquatilis and without this fossil taxon. Most character information of the extent taxa was extracted from literatures (Cob- ben 1959, 1969, Drake 1961, Cobben and Polhemus 1966, Polhemus and Evans 1969, Polhemus 1972, 1977, 1991, Cobben 1980, King and Fordy 1984, Chen and Zheng 1987, Vinokurov 2005, 2009, Schuh and Polhemus 2009). The descriptions for the 17 characters and character states are listed in the Appendix. All characters were treated as unordered and weighted equally. A maximum parsimony analysis of the character matrix (Table 2) edited by NDE (Nexus Data Editor) version 0.5.0 (Page 2001), was New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China... 191 Table |. Taxa included in the phylogenetic analysis (*: only included when we carried out phylogenetic analysis with Oligosaldina aquatilis) Subfamily Tribe Species out-group | Leptopodidae Ss = Patapius thaiensis Cobben, 1968 Aepophilidae ) | Sl Aepophilus bonnairei Signoret, 1879 in-group | Saldidae Saldinae Saldini Salda lugubris (Say, 1832) Teloleuca altaica Vinokurov, 2009 Saldoidini | Saldula montana Cobben, 1966 Calacanthia sichuanicus Chen & Zheng, 1987 Saldunculini | Salduncula swezeyi (Usinger, 1946) Chiloxanthinae Chiloxanthus pilosus (Fallén, 1807) Pentacora ligata (Say, 1832) Paralosalda innova Polhemus & Evans, 1969 *Oligosaldina aquatilis Statz & Wagner, 1950 =e i #£w# Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n. performed on NONA (Goloboff 1998), using the Multiple TBR+TBR search strategy, options set to hold 10000 trees, 1000 replications with 100 starting tree replication. The unambiguous characters were mapped by WinClada (Nixon 2000). Phylogenetic results For the phylogenetic analyses excluding fossil species O. aquatilis, we got two equally most parsimonious trees (Fig. 3A, B), with the following main characteristics: tree Table 2. Matrix of 17 characters and the 12 taxa used for phylogenetic analysis (*: only included when we carried out phylogenetic analysis with Oligosaldina aquatilis) POPS EN CAA PACHCCTN RECENT Taxon/Character Lose |25= | By Ge |" [BSE | Oe IS 2a) So: | SE |G | Patapius thaiensis lo |o |1 Jo |o fo. 0/1 j0)/-)1 0 |0 Aepophilus bonnairei EAraeS Ox2 | |o Jo Jo [- Jo Jo [o jo | 0. |0> |= Salda lugubris Te era ALS Vol * 1-0 Ld tele | Oe te FO: ely a LY ae Teloleuca altaica 1S lee) | le IEG 1 ee Oe ee ele Ele” 30 Saldula montana Oyler aly als. 16 Wyle Oa Oo Tee Naik AL Calacanthia sichuanicus it 2: fa (ah ip fow| a") a foe fia 1 |1 |o Salduncula swezeyi 12 |? Jo |1 |o Jo | Dea este (ob Oe al 1 Le Chiloxanthus pilosus Dali 1A 6 ham On Lae De a PD 1 Pentacora ligata be | 2 Ail Oo PL Zee ES ad ZG ah ol gs Jel TST Paralosalda innova 2s |2 1 2 FOAI Ds | Dees Fae fe UL ce sells, |e Ie Brevrimatus pulchalifer gen. et sp. n. rae Ua Palate le *Oligosaldina aquatilis & 12 Pelee Pe UPS ee fees eee hee le 192 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) Patapius thaiensis 58 11 Patapius thaiensis 5 8 11 Aepophilus bonnairei Aepophilus bonnairei Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. Paralosalda innova Chiloxanthus pilosus Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. Pentacora ligata Chiloxanthus pilosus 49 1516 Paralosalda innova Pentacora ligata Salduncula swezeyi Salduncula swezeyi Calacanthia sichuanicus Calacanthia sichuanicus : Sa/dula montana Saldula montana Salda lugubris B Teloleuca altaica Teloleuca altaica Salda lugubris Patapius thaiensis 5 811 Patapius thaiensis Aepophilus bonnairei Agponhilun benpalral fi Idin ili Chiloxanthus pilosus ug gse igs Bauets : Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. Pentacora ligata . Paralosalda innova Paralosalda innova Chiloxanthus pilosus 1 1 6 0 4 9 1516 a 1 Brevrimatus pulchalifer sp. n. Pantacoreligata Salduncula swezeyi Salduncula swezeyi Calacanthia sichuanicus Calacanthia sichuanicus 1 Saldula montana Saldula montana Salda /ugubris Salda lugubris Teloleuca altaica Teloleuca altaica Figure 3. Phylogeny of Saldidae. A, B the most parsimonious trees based on 11 taxa and 17 characters. C the strict consensus tree based on 11 taxa and 17 characters D the most parsimonious trees based on 12 taxa and 17 characters. (e) non-homoplasious; (©) homoplasious. length = 28, consistency index (CI) = 82, retention index (RI) = 87. The strict consen- sus tree is shown in Figure 3C. Phylogenetic results indicate Saldidae is a monophy- letic group, which is supported by four synapomorphies: posterior pronotal margin indented distinctly (Character 4:1); eversible glands present posterolaterally between sterna VI and VII (Character 9:1); eggs with aeropyles (Character 15:1); larval organ present (Character 16:1). Some synapomorphic characters, such as apicolateral scle- rotized structures of penis present (Character 13:1) and filum gonopori coiled one to four times, like a watch-spring (Character 14:1) supported the monophyly of the subfamily Saldinae. Chiloxanthinae with our fossil species included is a monophyletic group, which is supported by four synapomorphies: five well defined cells in mem- brane (Character 6:1); medial fracture long (Character 8:2); female subgenital plate truncate with concavity along the midline (Character 11:2); base of ovipositor exposed (Character 12:1). In summary, phylogenetic results suggest our new fossil genus is in Chiloxanthinae and short medial fracture was treated as a reversal character. For the phylogenetic analysis including fossil species O. aquatilis, we got one most parsimonious tree (Fig. 3D), tree length = 28, CI = 82, RI = 88. The monophyly of Saldidae is supported by four synapomorphies (Character 4:1, 9:1, 15:1 and 16:1) as the results above. In this phylogenetic result, besides Character 13:1 and Character New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China... 193 14:1, short costal fracture of hemelytra (Character 7:1) supports the monophyly of the subfamily Saldinae. Five well defined cells in membrane (Character 6:1) indicate that our new genus should be in the branch of Chiloxanthinae. Therefore, both of the phy- logenetic analyses suggest our fossil species should be classified into Chiloxanthinae. Comparison with Chiloxanthinae indicates the new fossil species differs from oth- er extant chiloxanthines in its short medial fracture. Besides this character, the bound- ary between corium and membrane is not clear in Enalosalda, which is different from Brevrimatus gen. n. with clear boundary. Paralosalda has four membrane cells, which is different from Brevrimatus gen. n. with five cells. Embolar modification of female is well developed in Pentacora, but in Brevrimatus gen. n. the embolar region is slightly thickened. Sublateral cell of membrane is shortest in Chiloxanthus, which differs from Brevrimatus gen. n. with the lateralmost cell is shortest. We further compared it with other fossil Saldidae. The arrangement of the cells of Brevrimatus gen. n. is similar to that of Oligosaldina, but lateralmost cell of membrane is distinctly smaller than that of Oligosaldina. Long costal fracture is present on Brevrimatus gen. n., but absent on Oligosaldina. A deep furrow is present in the pronotum of Oligosaldina, while it is absent in our new genus. Propentacora contains five closed cells in the wing mem- brane, but the corial vein of Propentacora appears to continue between the third and fourth membrane cells, which is different from the new genus. Brevrimatus gen. n. is distinctly different from Salda, which can be seen in phylogenetic result. Comparing our fossils with the fossil species Salda exigua, we can separate them in the following characters: Brevrimatus gen. n. possesses five closed cells in the forewing membrane, while S. exigua has three closed cells and rostrum of Brevrimatus gen. n. reaches to the base of hind coxae, while in S. exigua, rostrum just reaches to the fore coxae. Therefore Brevrimatus gen. n. is different from all other fossil genera. In geological age, all of the previously recorded fossil saldids are from Cenozoic. So far, Brevrimatus gen. n. found in the Lower Cretaceous sedimentary stratum is the oldest saldid. Acknowledgements We make a grateful acknowledgement for Alexandr Rasnitsyn’s contribution to paleoentomology. We sincerely thank Dr. Nikolai N. Vinokurov (Institute for Bio- logical Problems of Cryolithozone, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences), Ganyang Zhang (Entomology Department, University of California) and Hui Liu (Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University) for sending papers to us. Thanks to Dr. Shih ChungKun (College of Life Science, Capital Normal University) for his improvement of our manuscript, and to two anonymous review- ers and the editor for constructive comments. This research was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40872022, 31071964, 30800095), Nature Science Foundation of Beijing (No. 5082002), Beijing Talented Scholar Program Foundation (No. 20081D050160092) and the PHR20090509 Pro- ject of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education. 194 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) References Brooks AR, Kelton LA (1967) Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba (Hemiptera). 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Geology and resources 13 (4): 193-201 [in Chinese with English abstract] Zhou ZH, Barrett PM, Hilton J (2003) An exceptionally preserved Lower Cretaceous ecosys- tem. Nature 42: 807-814. doi: 10.1038/nature0 1420 Appendix List of characters and character states used in phylogenetic analysis Distance between ocelli: equal to width of ocellus (0); less than width of ocellus (1); more than width of ocellus (2). [We treat this character inapplicable in Aepophi- lidae that doesn’t have ocellus.] Rostrum reaches to: fore coxae (0); middle coxae (1); hind coxae (2). [Rostrum of Leptopodidae is very short, reaching to fore coxae at most. Rostrum of Saldidae is rela- tively long, reaching to middle coxae or hind coxae. Rostrum of B. pulchalifer sp. n. and O. aquatilis reaches to hind coxae. Long rostrum is the primitive character (Popov 1971).] Postclypeus: absent (0); present (1). [Postclypeus present in S. lugubris, T. altaica, S. montana, C. sichuanicus. This character cannot be identified in our fossil specimen. In other groups postclypeus is absent.] Posterior pronotal margin: non-indented (0); indented distinctly (1). [Posterior pronotal margin nearly straight in Aepophilidae, so we threat this character in Ae- pophilidae as non-indented. Posterior pronotal margin of Saldidae is demonstrated briefly in Figure 4A showing the indented posterior pronotal margin and Leptopodi- dae in Figure 4B showing the non-indented posterior pronotal margin. This character is considered as the synapomorphy for Saldidae.] Forewing: macroptery or submacroptery (0); semibrachypterous moderately or strongly (1); brachyptery (2). [Wing polymorphism occurs in Saldidae. Wing pattern can be separated into five categories based on the reduction of the membrane of fore wing (Cobben 1980). The membrane of Aepophilidae completely reduced, so it is brachyptery. C. sichuanicus with the semibrachypterous forewing. | Cells: Four well defined cells in membrane (0); five well defined cells in membrane (1). [In Aepophilidae, forewing greatly reduced, in form of pads without membrane, so we treated this character inapplicable in this family. Usually, Saldinae have four cells and Chiloxanthinae have five cells, but the distinction in hemelytral cells between the Saldinae and Chiloxanthinae is not constant (Polhemus and Chapman 1979). The fos- sil species, B. pulchalifer sp. n. and O. aquatilis have five cells.] Costal fracture of hemelytra: absent (0); present, short (1); present, very long (2). [Costal fracture length is a stable character within subfamily. Saldinae usually New shore bug (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Saldidae) from the Early Cretaceous of China... 197 im £ ay ae Figure 4. A, B pronotum A posterior pronotal margin indented B posterior pronotal margin non- indented C, D female subgenital plate C truncate with concave along the midline D posterior margin of produced caudad along the midline (modified from Polhemus and Chapman 1979). possesses short costal fracture and Chiloxanthinae usually possesses long costal frac- ture. Polhemus (1977) consider the long costal fracture in Chiloxanthinae to be a derived character providing a synapomorphy for the group. Costal fracture is absent in P thaiensis, A. bonnairei and O. aquatilis. Costal fracture in our fossil species, B. pulchalifer sp. n., is long.] Medial fracture: absent (0); present, short (1); present, very long (2). [Long me- dial fracture reaches at least to level of posterior end of claval suture, and short me- dial fracture not reaches anteriorly more than half the distance from costal fracture to posterior end of claval suture (Schuh and Slater 1995). Medial fracture is absent in A. bonnairei. \n P thaiensis, B. pulchalifer sp. n. and members of Saldinae, medial fracture is short. C. pilosus, P ligata and P innova have long medial fracture.] Eversible glands: absent (0); present posterolaterally between sterna VI and VI (1). [Saldidae has paired abdominal eversible glands with their openings locating be- tween sterna VI and VII. Eversible glands is absent in Leptopodidae and Aepophilidae. This structure is unknown in B. pulchalifer sp. n. and O. aquatilis. Eversible glands is considered to be a apomorphic character in Saldidae (Polhemus 1977).] Sclerite adjacent to eversible gland: present (0); absent (1). [This sclerite is pre- sent in Saldinae, but absent in Chiloxanthinae.] Female subgenital plate: truncate without concavity along the midline (0); tri- angular, posterior margin of produced caudad along the midline (1); truncate with concave along the midline (2). [In A. bonnairei female subgenital plate just like a nor- mal abdominal sternite. Subgenital plate is truncate with concave along the midline is found in the members of Chiloxanthinae and B. pulchalifer sp. n. as Figure 4C. Subgenital plate is triangular in Saldinae as Figure 4D.] Base of ovipositor: hidden by posterior medial prolongation of subgenital plate (0); exposed (1). [The base of ovipositor is hidden in Aepophilidae and Saldinae, but 198 Weiting Zhang et al. / ZooKeys 130: 185-198 (2011) exposed in Chiloxanthinae and B. pulchalifer sp. n. The exposed ovipositor is consid- ered a derived character (Polhemus 1977)] Apicolateral sclerotized structures of penis: absent (0), present (1). [This struc- ture absent in Aepophilidae and Chiloxanthinae, but present in Saldinae.] Filum gonopori: base of penis-filum not curled or at most forming one closed ring (0); filum gonopori coiled one to four times, like a watch-spring (1). [Base of penis-filum not curled in Leptopodidae and Aepophilidae, and coiled less than one ring in Chiloxanthinae. In Saldinae, base of penis-filum like a watch-spring. | Eggs: without aeropyles (0); with aeropyles (1). [Eggs with aeropyles is regarded as a synapomorphy for Saldidae.] Larval organ: absent (0); present (1). [Larval organ is absent in Leptopodidae and Aepophilidae, S. dugubris and T altaica. Larval organ present in S. montana, C. sichuanicus, C. pilosus, P ligata, P innova. Larval organ present in most members of Saldidae. The absence condition in Saldini is presumed to be the secondary lost (Polhemus 1977).] Larval organ: larval organ lateral, adjacent to spiracle (0); larval organ located medially, some distance from the spiracle (1). [In Saldinae, larval organ when present adjacent to spiracle, while the later condition occurred in Chiloxanthinae.]