Curicta pelleranoi De Carlo, 1951

Mazzucconi, Silvia Ana, Reyes, Cristina Armúa De & Estévez, Ana Lía, 2022, Aquatic and semiaquatic Heteroptera (Insecta: Hemiptera) from Iberá Natural Reserve (Corrientes Province, Argentina), Zootaxa 5104 (4), pp. 451-505 : 471

Curicta pelleranoi De Carlo, 1951

Curicta pelleranoi De Carlo, 1951 : Revta. Inst. Nac. Invest. C. Nat., C. Zool., 415–416.

Material examined. Galarza RS: 1 ♂, Isirí Stream near Luna Lagoon , 19.iv.2013 . Laguna Iberá RS: 1 ♀, Baletón San Pedro, 3.xii.2012 ; 1 ♀, route 40, roadside pond, 17.ii.2018. San Ignacio RS: 1 ♀, vehicle path, roadside ditches, 27°54’10.14’’S, 56°53’14.10’’W, 17.xi.2018. San Nicolás RS: 2 ♀, Carambola Stream, 28°12.302’S, 57°26.300’W, 13.xii.2013; 4 ♂, 1 ♀, Carambola Stream, 28°10.866’S, 57°26.224’W, 14.xii.2013; 1 ♂, Carambola Stream, 28°10.108’S, 57°25.787’W, 14.xii.2013. Yahaveré RS: 1 ♀, Campo Angelita, roadside marshes, 28°25’40.9”S, 57°49’12.3”W, 6.xi.2015.

General distribution. Brazil, Argentina ( Moreira et al. 2011b).

Habitat. Little information exists regarding the habitat associations of C. pelleranoi . This species has been found in Iberá in association with Leersia hexandra Sw. , and Cabomba caroliniana (in channels between marshes) ( Poi de Neiff 1984, 1993, 2003). During the present study, C. pelleranoi was collected from the unshaded margins with dense floating, emergent, and submerged vegetation (mainly Ludwigia peploides , Cabomba caroliniana , Pontederia azurea , P. crassipes Mart. , Myriophyllum aquaticum , Azolla filiculoides , Pontederia cordata L., Leersia hexandra and Salvinia biloba ), and organic debris of lentic habitats (ponds and marshes) and lotic habitats (Carambola Stream, Isirí Stream and roadside ditches).