Not listed from Argentina by Knight & Stone (1977).
Disease relations: The species has been potentially involved as vector of the Yellow Fever Virus (Cano et al. 2022).
Larvae were collected from the internodes of Guadua species of bamboo (Poaceae) with larvae of Wyeomyia codiocampa, and particularly in Guadua chacoensis in northeastern provinces of Argentina (Alvarez et al. 2024).