Sigara species in Montgomery Co., Maryland (Date obscured). (c) Stella Tea, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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Sigara species in Washington Co., Maryland (6/28/2025). (c) Frode Jacobsen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC).
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| Sigara | |
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| Sigara striata | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Corixidae |
| Tribe: | Corixini |
| Genus: | Sigara Fabricius, 1775 |
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
[edit]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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "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.
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