Species Sigara (Tropocorixa) truncatipala (Hale, 1922)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Corixa (Arctocorisa) truncatipala Hale, H.M. 1922. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera, No. I. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 309-330 [314].

  Type data:

   Lectotype SAMA I15183 ♂, Adelaide, SA.
  Paralectotype(s) SAMA I15183 ♀.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Lansbury, I. 1970. Revision of the Australian Sigara (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Corixidae). Journal of Natural History 4: 39-54 [51].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

QLD—Brisbane, Carnarvon, Lawes, NSW—Albury, Broken Hill, Bungendore, Clarence River, Ebor, Hay, Minnamurra Falls, Sydney, VIC—Cann River, Grampians, SA—Finniss River, Goolwa River, Lucindale, also Melanesia—New Caledonia, New Guinea.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

NSW, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic: Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Kanmantoo (KAN), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM)

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.

Campbell, T.G. 1927. Water bugs. Australian Museum Magazine 3: 90-96 [96] (note)

Hale, H.M. 1923. Studies in Australian aquatic Hemiptera. No. II. Records of the South Australian Museum (Adelaide) 2: 397-424 pls X-XI [423] (as Arctocorisa truncatipala, morphology)

Hungerford, H.B. 1934. Concerning some aquatic and semiaquatic Hemiptera from Australia. Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 29: 68-73 [69] (list)

Jaczewski, T. 1931. Die Corixiden (Corixidae, Heteroptera) des Zoologischen Staatsinstituts und Zoologischen Museums in Hamburg. II. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 23: 507-519 [508] (nov. comb. as Sigara truncatipala)

Jansson, A. 1982. Notes on some Corixidae (Heteroptera) from New Guinea and New Caledonia. Pacific Insects 24: 95-103 [99] (Melanesia)

Lansbury, I. 1970. Revision of the Australian Sigara (Hemiptera-Heteroptera: Corixidae). Journal of Natural History 4: 39-54 [49] (description)

Lundblad, O. 1929. Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Corixiden. II. Entomologisk Tidskrift 50: 17-48 [39] (nov. comb. as Sigara truncatipala)

McKeown, K.C. 1933. Aquatic insects. Australian Museum Magazine 5: 14-21 [16] (note)

McKeown, K.C. 1943. Australian insects. XIX. Hemiptera—4. The bugs (Gelastocoridae-Corixidae). Australian Museum Magazine 8: 176-180 [180] (biology)

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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