Hellica nitida Haglund, 1868

Dellapé, Gimena, 2016, Synopsis of the Acanthosomatidae (Heteroptera) from Argentina, Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 75, No. 1 - 2, pp. 81-90 : 85

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scientific name	Hellica nitida Haglund, 1868
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Hellica nitida Haglund, 1868 View in CoL ( Fig. 6)

Distribution. Brazil ( Haglund, 1868; Kumar, 1974), Uruguay, and Argentina: Buenos Aires, Santa Fe ( Bosq, 1937 as BanaSa pulChella Berg ), Formosa, Misiones ( Froeschner, 2000), Corrientes ( Quintanilla et al., 1976), Tucumán and CÓrdoba ( Grazia & Schwertner, 2014), Isla Martín García ( Carpintero & De Biase, 2011).

Material Examined. ARGENTINA: Misiones, Moconá Provincial Park , 27°09.185’S 53°54.080’W, 1J, 2-X-2010, Dellapé P.M. col. ( MLP) GoogleMaps ; Misiones, RP2 20 km NE of El Soberbio, 27°12,220’S 54°01,375’W, 326 m asl, 1♀, 5-III-2010, Dellapé P.M. col. ( MLP) GoogleMaps ; Buenos Aires, 2J 2♀, Bosq J. col. ( MLP) .

Host Plants. Lagenaria SiCeraria (Molina) Standl. ( Cucurbitaceae ) ( Bosq, 1937 as BanaSa pulChella Berg ).

Comments. Mendonça et al. (2009) and Weiler et al. (2012) mentioned this species from several localities of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.