Sigara (Tropocorixa) forciceps ( Spinola, 1852 )

Damgaard, Jakob & Moreira, Felipe Ferraz Figueiredo, 2021, Water bugs (Hemipera: Heteroptera: Nepomorpha & Gerromorpha) of Chile phylogenetic and biogeographic considerations, and a catalog of the fauna, Zootaxa 4958 (1), pp. 45-71 : 57

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4958.1.6
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scientific name	Sigara (Tropocorixa) forciceps ( Spinola, 1852 )
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Sigara (Tropocorixa) forciceps ( Spinola, 1852) View in CoL

Corixa forciceps Spinola, 1852: 234 .—HT: #, Chile; MIZT.

Arctocorisa forciceps ( Spinola, 1852) ; Kirkaldy & Torre-Bueno (1909: 195).

Sigara forciceps ( Spinola, 1852) View in CoL ; Jaczewski (1927: 58).

Sigara (Sigara) forciceps ( Spinola, 1852) View in CoL ; Jaczewski (1928a: 214).

Sigara rehi Jaczewski, 1931: 147 View in CoL (syn. Bachmann 1987: 34).—HT: #, [ Argentina], “ Buenos Aires ”; ZMUH.

Sigara (Tropocorixa) forciceps ( Spinola, 1852) View in CoL ; Hungerford (1948: 776).

Sigara (Tropocorixa) rehi Jaczewski, 1931 View in CoL ; Hungerford (1948: 779).

Sigara (Tropocorixa) argentiniensis chichinal Bachmann, 1960: 38 View in CoL (syn. Bachmann 1979: 336).—HT: Argentina, Río Negro, charcos en el lecho del Río Negro frente a Fuerte General Roca; MACN.

Distribution. Argentina ( Jaczewski 1931); Chile (Maule) ( Bachmann 1987).

Note. The identity of S. (T.) forciceps was uncertain until Bachmann (1987) examined Spinola’s type deposited in the MIZT. The species was misidentified and incorrectly recorded by most older authors, and its known distribution is restricted to the regions mentioned above .