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[Haiti; Peru; Bolivia; Colombia; Nicaragua; Puerto Rico; Cuba; 

 Tex.]. 

 Acanthochila spinuligera: Stal 1873, p. 127. 



Acanthocheila armigera: Drake and Bruner 1924a, p. 146 [Trinidad]. — 

 Drake 1926b, p. 377; 1928e, p. 5 [Honduras]. — Drake and Hamble- 

 ton 1934, p. 442 [Pisonia]; 1945, p. 359 [Ecuador].— Costa Lima 

 1936, p. 124.— Monte 1938b, p. 128 [Argentina; Venezuela]; 1940d, 

 p. 100 [Nicotiana tabacum]; 1942d, p. 108. — Singh 1953, p. 117. — Silva 

 1956, p. 15, fig. 1 [Ouratea]. 

 Acanthocheila nigrescens (not Drake and Bondar): Monte 1937a, p. 31 

 [Pisonia tomentosa]. 

 Type: Sex unknown; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Stockholm Mus. 

 Distribution: Argentina; Bolivia; Brazil; Peru; Ecuador; Colombia; 

 Venezuela; Panama; Nicaragua; Honduras; Guatemala; Mexico; U.S. 

 (Tex.); Cuba; Puerto Rico; Trinidad; Jamaica; Haiti. 



Host Plants: Nicotiana tabecum; Ouratea sp.; Pisonia tomentosa; Pisonia 

 sp. 

 *Acanthocheila comentis Drake 



Acanthochila comentis Drake 1953a, p. 13 [Brazil]. 

 Type: Holotype cf, macropterous; Vicosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil; 

 Drake Coll. (USNM). 

 Distribution: Brazil. 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



*Acanthocheila comitis Drake 



Acanthocheila comitis Drake 1948c, p. 23 [Maria Magdalena Island]. 

 Type: Holotype 9; Magdalena Island, Tres Marias; Cal. Acad. 

 Distribution: Mexico, Los Tres Marias Islands (Maria Magdalena). 

 Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



Acanthocheila denieri Monte 



Acanthocheila denieri Monte 1940e, p. 287, fig. 1 [Argentina]. 



Type: Holotype o"; Clorinda, Formosa, Argentina; Monte Coll. (Mus. 

 Nacional) . 



Distribution: Argentina. 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



* Acanthocheila dira Drake and Hambleton 



Acanthocheila dira Drake and Hambleton 1945, p. 359 [Guatemala]. 



Type: Holotype 9, macropterous; El Porvenir, Guatemala; Drake Coll. 

 (USNM). 



Distribution: Guatemala. 



Host Plant: Unrecorded. 



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