Insecta - Hemiptera - Saldidae
Alternative spelling: Saldides
Synonym: Acanthiidae Leach 1815
Full reference: C. J. B. Amyot and J. G. Audinet-Serville. 1843. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Hémiptères 1-676
Parent taxon: Saldoidea according to J. Szwedo 2018
See also Lewis 1969, Lindskog 1995, Popov 1971, Schuh et al. 1987, Scudder 1890, Statz and Wagner 1950 and Zhang et al. 2013
Sister taxa: Aepophilidae, Archegocimicidae
Subtaxa: Chiloxanthinae Enicocorinae Saldinae
Type: Salda
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Greenland (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1), United States (5: Pennsylvania, Washington)
• Miocene of United States (2: California, Idaho)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), Poland (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Brazil (1), China (46), Mongolia (12), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 78 collections including 96 occurrences