| Sigara fallenoidea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Corixidae |
| Genus: | Sigara |
| Species: | S. fallenoidea |
| Binomial name | |
| Sigara fallenoidea (Hungerford, 1926) | |
Sigara fallenoidea is a species of water boatman in the family Corixidae in the order Hemiptera. It was described by Hungerford and the type locality is in Canada. In Ireland Walton discovered a 'new' species of corixidae which he named Sigara pearcei. This was synonymised by Hungerford in 1950. The distribution of S. fallenoidea is therefore an extraordinary one including Canada, Ireland, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine and Russia. In Ireland, Sigara fallenoidea is found in all the large lakes on the island. There are confirmed records from Loughs Neagh, Beg and Portmore Lough; Upper and Lower Lough Erne; Lough Melvin; Loughs Ree, Derg and Key on the Shannon; and Lough Corrib.
References
- Walton, G.A. 1936 A new species of Corixidae, Sigara pearcei (Hemipt.) from Ireland; together with descriptions of its closely related species. Transactions of the Society for British Entomology. 3: 33–47
- Polhemus J.T., Jansson A., Kanyukova. 1995. Infraorder Nepomorpha Catalogue of the Heteroptera of the Palaearctic Region 1: 13–76
- Nelson, B. 1995 The distribution of the aquatic and semi-aquatic Heteroptera in Northern Ireland. Bulletin Irish biogeographical Society 18: 66–130
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Sigara fallenoidea | |
| Arctocorisa fallenoidea | |
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