Sigara fallenoidea

Sigara fallenoidea is a species of water boatman in the family Corixidae in the order Hemiptera. It was described by Hungerford and the type locality is in Canada. In Ireland Walton discovered a 'new' species of corixidae which he named Sigara pearcei.[1] This was synonymised by Hungerford in 1950. The distribution of S. fallenoidea is therefore an extraordinary one including Canada, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine and Russia.[2] In Ireland, Sigara fallenoidea is found in all the large lakes on the island. There are confirmed records from Loughs Neagh, Beg and Portmore Lough; Upper and Lower Lough Erne; Lough Melvin; Loughs Ree, Derg and Key on the Shannon; and Lough Corrib.[3]

Sigara fallenoidea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Hemiptera
Suborder:
Heteroptera
Infraorder:
Nepomorpha
Family:
Corixidae
Genus:
Sigara
Species:
S. fallenoidea
Binomial name
Sigara fallenoidea
(Hungerford, 1926)

References
  1. Walton, G.A. 1936 A new species of Corixidae, Sigara pearcei (Hemipt.) from Ireland; together with descriptions of its closely related species. Transactions of the Society for British Entomology. 3: 33-47
  2. Polhemus J.T., Jansson A., Kanyukova. 1995. Infraorder Nepomorpha Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region 1: 13-76
  3. Nelson, B. 1995 The distribution of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera in Northern Ireland. Bulletin Irish biogeographical Society 18: 66-130


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