Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929

Kment, Petr & Carapezza, Attilio, 2022, Heteroptera (Hemiptera) of the Socotra Archipelago I: Introduction, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha and Leptopodomorpha, Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (Acta. Ent. Mus. Natl. Pragae) 62 (2), pp. 475-519 : 481

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https://doi.org/ 10.37520/aemnp.2022.026

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10553042

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scientific name

Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929
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Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929 View in CoL

( Fig. 2 View Figs 1–4. 1 )

Sigara (Arctocorisa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929: 91–93 View in CoL , figs 6–8 (original description). Syntypes: ♂♂ ♀♀, Algeria: Mouyidir, Tiguelguemine (2 ♀♀), Tahoun Arak (1 ♀), and Hoggar, Aguelmane Imerrha (1 ♂ without abdomen, 1 ♀) (MNHN: coll. Bergevin, USNM: additional slides – viz JANSSON 1995: 54).

Corixa (Tropocorixa) choprai Hutchinson, 1940: 456–458 View in CoL , pl. XXIX: figs 385–396 (original description). Holotype: ♂, India: Himachal Pradesh, Simla Hills, Kandaghat (?NZSI). Synonymized by JANSSON (1995: 54).

Sigara brevixipha Brown, 1951: 259–261 , figs 20a–j, 21a–d (original description). Holotype: ♂, Saudi Arabia: Hejaz, Ashaira, Sail Kabir (BMNH). Synonymized by LINNAVUORI (1964: 336).

Material examined. SOCOTRA: Dixam plateau, wadi Zerig (12°29′36ʺN 53°59′30ʺE, pool at road bridge, Juncus marsh, 655 m a.s.l., 13.–14.vi.2012, 3 ♂♂ 1 L5 1 L3, Socotra expedition 2012: J. Bezděk, J. Hájek, V. Hula, P. Kment, I. Malenovský, J. Niedobová & L. Purchart lgt. ( NMPC); Dixam plateau, wadi Zerig (12°29′36ʺN 53°59′30ʺE), 18.i.2014, 30 ♂♂ 13 ♀♀ 2 L, A. Carapezza lgt. ( ACPI); Dixam plateau, wadi Zerig, beginning of track for Skand Mt. (12°29′15ʺN 53°59′20ʺE), 20.i.2014, 7 ♂♂ 2 ♀♀, A. Carapezza lgt. ( ACPI).

Identification. POISSON (1929) (description, figures); POISSON (1934a) (original description repeated, figures); POISSON (1936): 214–215 (diagnosis, figures); LINNAVUORI & HOSSEINI (2000) (key, diagnosis, figures); LINNAVUORI et al. (2011) (diagnosis, habitus photo).

Habitat. In Socotra, the species was collected in the medium elevation zone in a large pool with sparse littoral vegetation in a drying wadi ( Fig. 53 View Figs 49–53.49 ). Outside Socotra, it was collected in ponds, shallow pools with sandy bottom, rivers, rocky streams without vegetation, brook with gravelly bottom, rocky pools in a dried-out wadi, shallow irrigation dikes as well as in rice-field ( BROWN 1951; HYNES 1955; LINNAVUORI 1964, 1971, 1981, 1986a, 1994b, 2009; LINNAVUORI & VAN HARTEN 1997 ; ALAHMED et al. 2009; LINNAVUORI et al. 2011). Also collected at light ( LINNAVUORI 2009, LINNAVUORI et al. 2011). ALAHMED et al. (2009) reported S. hoggarica as an efficient predator of mosquito larvae.

Distribution. Afrotropical Region: Chad ( DISPONS 1965), Ethiopia ( HYNES 1955), Mauritania ( VILLIERS 1951), Niger ( POISSON 1950a, LINNAVUORI 1981), Sudan ( LINNAVUORI 1971). Palaearctic Region: NorthAfrica:Algeria ( POISSON 1929, 1948b), Canary Islands ( BAENA & BÁEZ 1990, ROCACUSACHS et al. 2020), Egypt ( PRIESNER & WAGNER 1961, as S. brevixipha ; LINNAVUORI 1964), Libya ( POISSON 1948b); Near East: Iraq ( LINNAVUORI 1994b), Iran ( LINNAVUORI 2004, 2009; GHAHARI et al. 2013), Israel ( BAENA & BÁEZ 1990, JANSSON 1995, both without exact record), Oman ( AUKEMA et al. 2013, without exact record), Saudi Arabia ( BROWN 1951, 1953b, both as S. brevixipha ; LINNAVUORI 1986a; ALAHMED et al. 2009), Socotra (this paper), United Arab Emirates ( LINNAVUORI et al. 2011), Yemen ( BROWN 1951, as S. brevixipha ; LINNAVUORI 1989b; LINNAVUORI & VAN HARTEN 1997 ). Oriental Region: Pakistan: Balochistan ( HUTCHINSON 1940, as S. choprai ), India: Himachal Pradesh ( HUTCHINSON 1940, as S. choprai ). New to the Socotra Archipelago.

Notes. The record from Asian Turkey by NIESER & MOUBAYED (1985) is erroneous (cf. FENT et al. 2011).

POISSON (1936: 214) incorrectly treated S. (T.) lundbladiana Hutchinson, 1932 as a synonym of S. hoggarica (see JANSSON 1995: 54).

NMPC

National Museum Prague

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

Family

Corixidae

Genus

Sigara

Loc

Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929

Kment, Petr & Carapezza, Attilio 2022
2022
Loc

Sigara brevixipha

LINNAVUORI R. 1964: 336
BROWN E. S. 1951: 261
1951
Loc

Corixa (Tropocorixa) choprai

JANSSON A. 1995: 54
HUTCHINSON G. E. 1940: 458
1940
Loc

Sigara (Arctocorisa) hoggarica

JANSSON A. 1995: 54
POISSON R. 1929: 93
1929
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