Curicta borellii Montandon, 1903

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 borellii Montandon, 1903

Curicta borellii Montandon, 1903b : Bull. Soc. Sci. Bucarest, 100–101.

Material examined. Itatí RS: 1 ♂, Estancia El Dorado, artificial pond, 28°45.60’S, 58°7.23’W, 28.iii.2014. San Ignacio RS: 1 ♀, vehicle path, roadside marshland and ditches, 27°54.551’S, 56°53.254’W, 3.iii.2015.

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

Habitat. Little information exists regarding the habitat associations of C. borellii . This species has been collected from lagoons, streams and rivers ( Keffer 1997). It has been reported living at the margins of unshaded ponds and marshlands with muddy bottoms and with dense vegetation and plant debris ( Torres et al. 2007).

At the INR, specimens were found at the margins of ponds, marshlands, and ditches, exposed to sunlight and with dense emergent and floating vegetation.

Remarks. This is the first record of C. borellii from INR. This species was previously recorded from Corrientes Province by Keffer (1997), as Curicta carinata De Carlo, 1951 by De Carlo (1951), and as Curicta sanmartini De Carlo, 1958 by De Carlo (1958) and Bachmann (1999).