Protodictya guttularis, (Wiedemann), 1830: 584

guttularis (Wiedemann), 1830: 584 View in CoL

( Tetanocera ) [ Malloch 1933: 321]

HT: ♀ [ Uruguay] “ Montevideo.” ZMHB, unnumbered

DIST: ARGENTINA (Buenos Aires; Chaco; Corrientes; Santa Fe). BOLIVIA (Cochabamba; Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz). BRAZIL (Paraná; Rio Grande do Sul; S ã o Paulo). URUGUAY (Montevideo). Map: Marinoni & Knutson 1992

FIGS: Malloch 1933 (♂ sternite 5; surstylus), Marinoni & Knutson 1992 (♂ terminalia, ♂ sternite 5; ♀ terminalia, spermatheca), Marinoni & Carvalho 1993 (♂ genitalia; spermatheca)

BIOL: Abercrombie 1970. BG: 11; PG: 6

HOSTS/PREY OF LARVAE: Larvae of P. guttularis fed on the following snails in the laboratory: Aplexa marmorata , Biomphalaria glabrata , Galba humilis , Gyraulus parvus , Helisoma trivolvis , Marisa cornuarietis , Physella gyrina , Planorbella duryi , Planorbula armigera , Stagnicola palustris , and Tarebia granifera ( Abercrombie 1970) . V.W. Kaczynski (in litt.) noted that larvae also fed on snail eggs at times.

IMMATS: Abercrombie 1970 (E, L1–L3, P)

CHR: Boyes et al. 1969 (karyotype)

angulifera Walker, 1849: 1085 ( Tetanocera ) [ Steyskal 1966: 446]

HT: ♀ [ Uruguay] Montevideo. NHMUK, unnumbered [examined by Steyskal 1966: 446]

gutturalis Wiedemann of Brèthes 1907 [Brèthes paper was published in 1907 in the 1908 issue of Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires]: 300, error. Thomson (1869: 572) noted a “var.” of P. guttularis , without a name, from Argentina (Buenos Aires)