Sigara (Vermicorixa) scripta (Rambur)

Slimani, Noura, Moulet, Pierre, Chen, Ping-Ping, Nieser, Nico, Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique, Boumaïza, Moncef & Guilbert, Eric, 2015, Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia, Zootaxa 3981 (2), pp. 151-176 : 162-163

Sigara (Vermicorixa) scripta (Rambur)

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Material examined. Station 1, 22 -vi-2013, 1 ♂3♀; station 10, 22 -iv-2013, 10 ♂13♀; station 11, 26 -vi-2013, 1 ♂; station 13, 25 -vi-2013, 4 ♂; 16-vii-2013, 4♀; 3-ix-2013, 2♂ 1♀; station 21, 24 -vii-2013, 1 ♂1♀; station 25, 21 -v- 2013, 1 ♂2♀; 27-vi-2013, 4♂ 1♀; station 29, 23 -v-2013, 1 ♂; station 31, 23 -v-2013, 2 ♂3♀; station 32, 28 -iii-2013, 6 ♂3♀; 25-vii-2013, 2♂ 4♀; station 33 23-v-2013, 2♀; 29-vi-2013, 2♂ 13♀; station 40, 27 -i-2013, 4 ♂2♀; 25-iii- 2013, 2♂; station 41, 22 -iv-2013, 1 ♂; station 42, 27 -i-2013, 4 ♂ 2♀; 25-ii-2013, 6♀; 25-iii-2013, 10♂ 16♀, 22-iv- 2013, 4♂ 4♀; 20-v-2013, 95♂ 197♀; 26-vi-2013, 73♂ 98♀; 18-vii-2013, 63♂ 49♀; 19-viii-2013, 13♂ 59♀; 02-ix- 2013, 83♂ 66♀; station 44, 16 -vii-2013, 1♀; station 45, 27 -i-2013,6♂11♀; 25-ii-2013, 7♂ 1♀; 25-iii-2013, 6♂ 4♀; 22-iv-2013, 1♂; 25-vi-2013, 1♀; station 46, 27 -1-2013, 2 ♂2♀; 22-iv-2013, 3♂ 1♀; 20-v-2013, 1♂ 1♀; 18-vii-2013, 14♂ 8♀; station 48, 5 -ix-2013, 2♀.

Comments. This species inhabits stagnant or slow-flowing waters up to 380 m asl. It was often found amid the same aquatic plants where Sigara (Vermicorixa) lateralis was collected. It was first recorded from Tunisia by Poisson & Gauthier (1927) in the north (Ferryville, Bizerte) and the center (Enfidaville, Kairouan) under the name of Arctocorixa scripta Rambur.

Distribution. It is distributed in Southern Europe, northern Africa and Anatolia, Iraq ( Jansson 1995; Carapezza 1997; Aukema et al. 2013).

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FIGURE 6. A. Distribution of Sigara (Vermicorixa) scripta. B. Distribution of Naucoris maculatus conspersus.