Sigara ( Vermicorixa ) lateralis (Leach, 1817)

Cianferoni, Fabio & Dia, Aref, 2025, Annotated catalogue and checklist of Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, and Leptopodomorpha (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) of Lebanon, with new records, Zootaxa 5725 (1), pp. 1-54 : 28

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5725.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5CED4B20-6D8A-44CC-B7AF-C1A9EE710EC2

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17989430

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D587B7-FF9D-FF80-F3AF-FF3EC7C4FE59

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Sigara ( Vermicorixa ) lateralis (Leach, 1817)
status

 

Sigara ( Vermicorixa) lateralis (Leach, 1817) View in CoL

Sigara lateralis (Leach) View in CoL : Dia (1983), “ Liban méridional”; Nieser & Moubayed (1986: 250), “ Liban [only in the checklist]”.

Sigara ( Vermicorixa) lateralis (Leach) View in CoL : Kment & Carapezza (2022: 483), “ Lebanon (Nieser & Moubayed 1985, Jansson 1995, no exact record)”, quotation of Nieser & Moubayed (1986, as “1985”).

Material examined. Survey material: Basin of El Kebir : Aarida, 7.V.2005, 1 ♂, MLUB . Basin of Litani : Nabaa el Hjaïr, 2.VI.2005, 1 ♂, CFC ; Litani at Qelia bridge, 31.VII.2005, 1 ♀, MLUB .

General distribution. This species is widespread in the Palaearctic, with extension to the Arabian Peninsula, Socotra, and Eastern Africa. However, its distribution in the Afrotropical Region requires revision ( cf. Kment & Carapezza 2022).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Hemiptera

InfraOrder

Nepomorpha

Family

Corixidae

SubFamily

Corixinae

Genus

Sigara

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