Parasigara favieri (Poisson)

Slimani, Noura, Moulet, Pierre, Chen, Ping-Ping, Nieser, Nico, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Boumaïza, Moncef & Guilbert, Eric, 2015, Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia, Zootaxa 3981 (2), pp. 151-176 : 159

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5680837

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scientific name

Parasigara favieri (Poisson)
status

 

Parasigara favieri (Poisson) View in CoL

( Fig. 4 View FIGURE 4. A B, 11B)

Material examined. Station 12, 23 -iv-2013, 3 ♂5♀; 16-vii-2013, 9♂ 9♀; station 25, 21 -v-2013, 18 ♂4♀; station 48, 29 -vi-2013, 7 ♂9♀; 19-vii-2013, 21♂ 21♀; 22-viii-2013, 4♂ 3♀; 05-ix-2013, 1♂ 5♀; station 49, 25 -iii-2013, 1 ♂; 23-v-2013, 1♀; 29-vi-2013, 1♂; 29-vii-2013, 1♂ 1♀.

Comments. The specimens were collected in both flowing and stagnant areas, in localities up to 398 m asl. The first record for Tunisia is by Puton (1886) in northern Tunisia (Aïn Draham, Jendouba) under the name of Corixa transversa Fieber.

Distribution. It is a Maghrebin species extending to Sicily ( Jansson 1986; Carapezza 1997).

Carapezza, A. (1997) Heteroptera of Tunisia. Naturalista Siciliano, Serie IV, 21 (Supplement A), 1 - 312.

Jansson, A. (1986) The Corixidae (Heteroptera) of Europe and some adjacent regions. Acta Entomologica Fennica, 52, 1 - 93.

Puton, A. (1886) Enumeration des Hemipteres recueillis en Tunisie en 1883 et 1884. Exploration scientifique de la Tunisie, Paris, 24 pp.

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FIGURE 4. A. Distribution of Hesperocorixa linnaei, Hesperocorixa moesta and Hesperocorixa furtiva. B. Distribution of Parasigara favieri.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Corixidae

SubFamily

Corixinae

Genus

Parasigara