Sigara

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Paraneoptera
Superordo: Condylognatha
Ordo: Hemiptera
Subordo: Heteroptera
Infraordo: Nepomorpha
Superfamilia: Corixoidea

Familia: Corixidae
Subfamilia: Corixinae
Genus: Sigara
Subgenera (8): Halicorixa – Microsigara – Pseudovermicorixa – Retrocorixa – Sigara – Subsigara – Tropocorixa – Vermicorixa
Name

Sigara Fabricius, 1775: 691

Type species: Notonecta striata Linnaeus, 1758; fixation: monotypy

References
Primary references

Fabricius, J.C. 1775. Systema entomologiae, sistens insectorum classes, ordines, genera, species, adiectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, observationibus. Libraria Kortii, Flensburgi et Lipsiae. xvi+ 832 pp. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.36510. BHL. Reference page.

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Sigara Taxon details on Fauna Europaea

Sigara is a genus of water boatmen in the family Corixidae.[1] Some species within this genus are halophiles; for example, occurrences of the genus have been noted in the hypersaline Makgadikgadi Pans in Botswana.[2]
Species

These 100 species belong to the genus Sigara:

Sigara alluaudi (Kirkaldy, 1899) g
Sigara alternata (Say, 1825) i c g b
Sigara arguta
Sigara assimilis (Fieber, 1848) g
Sigara atomaria Illiger, 1807 g
Sigara basalis (A.Costa, 1843) g
Sigara bellula (Horváth, 1879) g
Sigara berneri Hungerford and Hussey, 1957 i c g
Sigara bicoloripennis (Walley, 1936) i c g
Sigara bradleyi (Abbott, 1913) i c g
Sigara compressoidea (Hungerford, 1928) i c g
Sigara conocephala (Hungerford, 1926) i c g b
Sigara cubiensis Hungerford, 1948 g
Sigara daghestanica Jansson, 1983 g
Sigara decorata (Abbott, 1916) i c g
Sigara decoratella (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara defecta Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara denseconscripta g
Sigara depressa Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara distincta
Sigara distorta (Distant, 1911) g
Sigara dolabra Hungerford and Sailer, 1943 i c g
Sigara dorsalis
Sigara douglasensis (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara falleni (Fieber, 1848) g
Sigara fallenoidea (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara formosana (Matsumura, 1915) g
Sigara fossarum (Leach, 1817) g
Sigara gordita (Abbott, 1913) i c g
Sigara grossolineata Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara hellensii (C.R.Sahlberg, 1819) g
Sigara hoggarica Poisson, 1929 g
Sigara hubbelli (Hungerford, 1928) i c g
Sigara hydratotrephes (Kirkaldy, 1908) i c g
Sigara iactans Jansson, 1983 g
Sigara italica Jaczewski, 1933 g
Sigara janssoni Lucas Castro, 1983 g
Sigara johnstoni Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara knighti Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara krafti Stonedahl, 1984 i c g
Sigara lateralis (Leach, 1817) g
Sigara lemana Fieber, 1860 g
Sigara limitata (Fieber, 1848) g
Sigara lineata (Forster, 1771) i c g b
Sigara longipalis (J.Sahlberg, 1878) g
Sigara mackinacensis (Hungerford, 1928) i c g b
Sigara macrocepsoidea Hungerford, 1942 i c g
Sigara macropala (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara mathesoni Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara mayri (Fieber, 1860) g
Sigara mckinstryi Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara meridionalis (Wallengren, 1875) g
Sigara minuta Fabricius, 1794 g
Sigara mississippiensis Hungerford, 1942 i c g
Sigara modesta (Abbott, 1916) i c g
Sigara mullettensis (Hungerford, 1928) i c g b
Sigara nevadensis (Walley, 1936) i c g
Sigara nigrolineata
Sigara nigroventralis (Matsumura, 1905) g
Sigara omani (Hungerford, 1930) i c g b
Sigara ornata (Abbott, 1916) i c g b
Sigara paludata Hungerford, 1942 i c g
Sigara pectenata (Abbott, 1913) i c g
Sigara penniensis (Hungerford, 1928) i c g
Sigara platensis g
Sigara quebecensis (Walley, 1930) i c g
Sigara rubyae g
Sigara saileri Wilson, 1953 i c g
Sigara salgadoi Lucas Castro, 1983 g
Sigara santiagiensis (Hungerford, 1928) g
Sigara scabra (Abbott, 1913) i c g
Sigara schadei Hungerford, 1928 g
Sigara scholtzi Fieber, 1860 g
Sigara scholtzii Scholtz, 1847 g
Sigara scotti (Douglas & Scott, 1868) g
Sigara scripta (Rambur, 1840) g
Sigara selecta (Fieber, 1848) g
Sigara semistriata (Fieber, 1848) g
Sigara septemlineata (Paiva, 1918) g
Sigara servadeii Tamanini, 1965 g
Sigara sigmoidea (Abbott, 1913) i c g
Sigara signata (Fieber, 1851) i c g
Sigara solensis (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara stagnalis (Leach, 1817) g
Sigara stigmatica (Fieber, 1851) i c g
Sigara striata (Linnaeus, 1758) i c g
Sigara tadeuszi Lundblad, 1933 g
Sigara takahashii Hungerford, 1940 g
Sigara transfigurata (Walley, 1930) i c g
Sigara trilineata (Provancher, 1872) i c g b
Sigara truncatipala (Hale, 1922) g
Sigara tucma g
Sigara vallis Lauck, 1966 i c g
Sigara vandykei Hungerford, 1948 i c g
Sigara variabilis (Hungerford, 1926) i c g
Sigara venusta (Douglas & Scott, 1869) g
Sigara virginiensis Hungerford, 1948 i c g b
Sigara washingtonensis Hungerford, 1948 i c g b
Sigara yala g
Sigara zimmermanni (Fieber, 1851) i c g

Data sources: i = ITIS,[3] c = Catalogue of Life,[4] g = GBIF,[5] b = Bugguide.net[6]
See also

Extremophile

References

"Sigara Fabricius, 1775". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
C. Michael Hogan (2008) Makgadikgadi, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham
"Sigara Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Browse Sigara". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Sigara". GBIF. Retrieved 2018-04-12.
"Sigara Genus: Information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2018-04-12.