Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929

Fent, Meral, Kment, Petr, Çamur-Elipek, Belgin & Kirgiz, Timur, 2011, Annotated catalogue of Enicocephalomorpha, Dipsocoromorpha, Nepomorpha, Gerromorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Turkey, with new records 2856, Zootaxa 2856 (1), pp. 1-84 : 60

Sigara (Tropocorixa) hoggarica Poisson, 1929 ( Corixidae : Corixinae)

Turkey (not distinguished). Nieser & Moubayed (1985; South Turkey).

General distribution. From Canary Islands and Ethiopia to Yemen and India, also in Israel, Iraq, the United Arab Emirates and Iran ( Jansson 1995, Linnavuori & van Harten 1997, Linnavuori et al. 2011).

Comment. The species was listed from Turkey by mistake (N. Nieser, pers. comm.); however, its occurrence in south-eastern Anatolia cannot be excluded.

Identification. Poisson (1929), Linnavuori & Hosseini (2000).