Also known from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guiana, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, and Venezuela (Mazzucconi et al. 2009, Floriano et al. 2016).
Observations
Female paratype at USNM (United States National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC, USA).
Host plants
This species can be found in shaded rivers, streams and ponds (Floriano et al. 2016).
References
MAZZUCCONI, S.A., LOPEZ RUF, M.S. & BACHMANN, A.O. 2009. Gerromorpha y Nepomorpha (Insecta: Heteroptera) del Parque Provincial Salto Encantado del Valle del Cuñá Pirú, Provincia de Misiones, Argentina. Lundiana 9(1): 57- 66.
FLORIANO CFB, PALADINI A & CAVICHIOLI RR. 2016. Systematics of the South American species of Cylindrostethus Mayr, 1865 (Hemiptera : Heteroptera : Gerridae), with a new species from Amazonian Brazil and Peru. Invertebrate Systematics 30: 431–462.