Striped Water Boatman: Rostrum

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Insects (Insecta)

Order:

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

Family:

Water Boatman (Nepomorpha: Corixidae)

Species:

Striped Water Boatman (Sigara sp)

This Photo:

Rostrum

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~7mm long with horizontal stripes on the pronotum, transverse grooves on the rostrum with no ocelli. Notice the curved inside of the forewing.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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