Sigara fallenoidea
| 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) | |
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]
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Polhemus J.T., Jansson A., Kanyukova. 1995. Infraorder Nepomorpha Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region 1: 13-76
- ↑ 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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