Sigara Fabricius, 1775

Ghahari, Hassan, Moulet, Pierre, Ostovan, Hadi & Linnavuori, Rauno E., 2013, An annotated catalog of the Iranian Dipsocoromorpha, Enicocephalomorpha, Gerromorpha, Leptopodomorpha and Nepomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), Zootaxa 3641 (4), pp. 301-342 : 323-324

Subgenus Sigara Fabricius, 1775

Sigara (Sigara) albiventris (Horváth, 1911)

Corixa albiventris Horváth, 1911: 594 (as new species).

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Seidenstücker 1957).

General distribution. Anatolia, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Palestine (Jansson 1995), Turkey (Kanyukova 1994). Comment. Populations from Azerbaijan are intermediate between S. striata and S. albiventris ; the records of S. albiventris fom Daghestan refer to S. striata (Kanyukova 1994) .

Sigara (Sigara) assimilis (Fieber, 1848)

Corixa assimilis Fieber, 1848: 525 (as new species); Corisa fussi Fieber, 1864: 208 .

Distribution in Iran. Bushehr, East Azarbaijan, Khuzestan (Linnavuori 2009), West Azarbaijan (Wagner 1961; Linnavuori 2009; Ghahari et al. 2010a), Iran (no locality cited) (Aukema & Rieger 1995; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000; Linnavuori et al. 2011).

General distribution. From the Balkan (except Greece) to China and Mongolia (Jansson 1995).

Sigara (Sigara) seistanensis (Distant, 1920)

Corixa seistanensis Distant, 1920: 206 (as new species); Corixa randana Distant, 1920: 206 ; Sigara astrita Lansbury, 1966: 215 .

Distribution in Iran. Khorasan (Linnavuori & Modarres Awal 1998), Iran (no locality cited) (Distant 1920; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000).

General distribution. Central and Middle Asia, Far East, Oriental Region (Jansson 1995).

Sigara (Sigara) striata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Notonecta striata Linnaeus, 1758: 439 (as new species); Corixa strigata Latreille, 1804: 289 ; Sigara undulata Fallén, 1814: 7 ; Corixa pipiens Gistel, 1857: 61 .

Distribution in Iran. Guilan (Cox & Cox 1995), Iran (no locality cited) (Jansson 1995; Linnavuori & Hosseini 2000).

General distribution. Euro-Siberian (Jansson 1995; Fent et al. 2011).