Acanthoscelides argentinus (Pic, 1938) . Combination confirmed.

Bruchus argentinus Pic, 1938a: p. 19 . From label: “Chaco-Argentina / Resistencia / 1-1936 / M.J. Viana ” [Argentina]. Syntype female deposited in the MNHN; syntype males and females deposited in the MLPA; syntype male deposited in the USNM. The female specimen in Paris has a “ Lectotype ” label affixed by Kingsolver. But this was never published, so these remain syntypes.

Bruchus argentinus: Cabrera & Fernández (1998), p. 2 (catalog).

Acanthoscelides argentinus: Blackwelder (1946), p. 758 (catalog, comb. nov.); Udayagiri & Wadhi (1989), p. 36 (catalog).