Checklist, distribution, and a new record of Nepomorphan water bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in northern Tunisia Author Slimani, Noura Author Moulet, Pierre Author Chen, Ping-Ping Author Nieser, Nico Author Pluot-Sigwalt, Dominique Author Boumaïza, Moncef Author Guilbert, Eric text Zootaxa 2015 3981 2 151 176 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3981.2.1 b8c1fe54-7d0e-4f96-a21e-76410d8f0270 1175-5326 239818 5E714DAC-15F2-46DA-AE2E-F74B2513D558 Parasigara favieri (Poisson) ( Fig. 4 B, 11B) Material examined. Station 12, 23 -iv-2013, 3 ♂5♀; 16-vii-2013 , 9♂ 9♀; station 25, 21 -v-2013, 18 ♂4♀; station 48, 29 -vi-2013, 7 ♂9♀; 19-vii-2013 , 21♂ 21♀; 22-viii-2013 , 4♂ 3♀; 05-ix-2013 , 1♂ 5♀; station 49, 25 -iii-2013, 1 ♂; 23-v-2013 , 1♀; 29-vi-2013 , 1♂ ; 29-vii-2013 , 1♂ 1♀. Comments. The specimens were collected in both flowing and stagnant areas, in localities up to 398 m asl. The first record for Tunisia is by Puton (1886) in northern Tunisia (Aïn Draham, Jendouba) under the name of Corixa transversa Fieber. Distribution. It is a Maghrebin species extending to Sicily ( Jansson 1986 ; Carapezza 1997 ).