Gymnetis chalcipes Gory & Percheron, 1833

Figs. 5–12, 16 (natural history)

Gymnetina (Gymnetoides) chalcipes chalcipes (Gory & Percheron, 1833): Monné 1970: 61 (natural history).

Paragymnetis chalcipes (Gory & Percheron, 1833): Silva et al. 1968: 555 (distribution, natural history).

Paragymnetis litigiosa, not Gory & Percheron, 1833: Di Iorio 2003: 179 (distribution, natural history): misidentification.

Literature food records. BRAZIL: Río Grande do Sul: locality not stated, on flowers of cultivated fig tree, observation of A. Bertels (Silva et al. 1968); ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: Punta Lara, 20-II- (1927), 4 exx., identified by Bruch, feeding on sap of a branch of Salix babylonica (Salicaceae), broken by larval galleries of Mallodon spinibarbis (Linnaeus, 1758) ( Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Prioninae) (Maldonado Bruzzone 1927); Florencio Varela, 16-III-1996, Di Iorio leg., 2 exx. (ODIC), feeding on ripened fruits of Diospyros kaki (Ebenaceae) on the plant (Di Iorio 2003); URUGUAY: (locality not stated), adults on flowers of Eryngium sp. ( Apiaceae) (Monné 1970).

New food records. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: José C. Paz, II-1996, C. Servian leg., 1 ex. (FPBA), feeding on a ripened fig, Ficus carica (Moraceae); Partido Vicente López, Florida, 2011, feeding on ripened fruits of Diospyros kaki fallen to the ground (Lucas Damer, personal observation); Reserva Ecológica de Vicente López, XII-2012 to I-2013, L. Damer & Di Iorio leg., 17 exx. (ODIC) (Table 1), feeding on sap from adult and larval galleries of Megaplatypus mutatus (Chapuis, 1825) ( Coleoptera: Platypodidae) in boles of Salix babylonica (Salicaceae) (Figs. 5–12, 16); Capital Federal: Reserva Ecológica Costanera Sur, 9-XI-2011, L. Damer leg., 1 ex. (LDBA), on male flowers of Phytolacca dioica (Phytolaccaceae) fallen to the ground, several exx. (not collected), feeding on fruits fallen to the ground.

Bait traps. ARGENTINA: Entre Ríos: Ibicuy, I-2012, C. Ufor leg., 4 exx. (CUJCP), 2 exx. (ODIC), feeding in banana bait-traps; Buenos Aires: Hurlingham, 22-I-1997, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. (ODIC), in banana bait trap; Capital Federal: Agronomía, 6-I-2012, A. Fortino leg., 1 ex. (AFBA), banana bait trap; Ciudad Universitaria, 2011–2012, 175 exx. (ODIC), XII-2012, 1 ex. (ODIC), feeding in banana bait-traps (Table 1).

Overwintering. ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires: Otamendi, 30-VII-2008, Di Iorio leg., 1 ex. (ODIC), under bark of Eucalyptus camaldulensis (Myrtaceae) .