Striped Water Boatman
Pronotum
Ellura
Striped Water Boatman
Anterior
 
                      
Striped Water Boatman (Sigara sp)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.

Copyright © 2019-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 27-Feb-2019
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.