Species Sigara (Tropocorixa) tadeuszi Lundlbad, 1933

Museums

Regional Maps

• Sigara tadeuszi Lundblad, O. 1933. Zur Kenntnis der aquatilen und semiaquatilen Hemipteren von Sumatra, Java und Bali auf Grund des Materials der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition, nebst Revision einiger anderer, indoaustralischer Arten. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 12: 1-195, 263-489 [81].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMH ♂ (Institution uncertain), Manly, Sydney, NSW.
• Sigara halei Hungerford, H.B. 1934. Concerning some aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera from Australia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 68-73 [69].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) KU 5♂ ♀, Brisbane, QLD.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Jaczewski, T. 1939. Uwagi o wios lakach (Corixidae). XV–XXIII. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici 13: 269-302 [298]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Cairncross National Park, Dunwich, Lawes, Mt Glorious, NSW—Kingstown, Point Lookout National Park, Sydney, also Oriental Region—Indonesia, Melanesia—Indonesia (Irian Jaya), New Caledonia.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA: New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, arthropod-feeder, detritivore, diurnal, lentic freshwater, lotic freshwater, volant.

 

General References

Andersen, N.M. & Weir, T.A. 2004. Australian Water Bugs. Their Biology and Identification (Hemiptera-Heteroptera, Gerromorpha & Nepomorpha). Entomonographen Denmark : Apollo Books Vol. 14 344 pp.

Jaczewski, T. 1931. Die Corixiden (Corixidae, Heteroptera) des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums in Hamburg. II. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 23: 507-519 [507] (misidentification as Sigara sublaevifrons)

Jaczewski, T. 1939. Uwagi o wios lakach (Corixidae). XV–XXIII. Annales Musei Zoologici Polonici 13: 269-302 [298] (note)

Jansson, A. 1982. Notes on some Corixidae (Heteroptera) from New Guinea and New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 24: 95-103 [98] (Irian Jaya)

Lansbury, I. 1970. Revision of the Australian Sigara (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Corixidae). Journal of Natural History 4: 39-54 [47, figs 57-69] (description)

Polhemus, J.T. & Herring, J.L. 1970. Ergebnisse der Österreichischen Neukaledonien Expedition. Aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 72: 179-187 [185] (New Caledonia)

 

History of changes

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