Triatoma
Encyclopedia
Triatoma is a genus
of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae
(kissing bugs.) The members of Triatoma (like all members of Triatominae) are blood-sucking insects
that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease
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Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae
Triatominae
The members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates...
(kissing bugs.) The members of Triatoma (like all members of Triatominae) are blood-sucking insects
Hemiptera
Hemiptera is an order of insects most often known as the true bugs , comprising around 50,000–80,000 species of cicadas, aphids, planthoppers, leafhoppers, shield bugs, and others...
that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease
Chagas disease
Chagas disease is a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellate protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi. T. cruzi is commonly transmitted to humans and other mammals by an insect vector, the blood-sucking insects of the subfamily Triatominae most commonly species belonging to the Triatoma, Rhodnius,...
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Species according to ECLAT
- T. amicitiae Lent, 1951b
- T. arthurneivai Lent & Martins, 1940 (Tc)
- T. baratai Carcavallo & Jurberg, 2000
- T. barberi Usinger, 1939 (Tc) [main vector in parts of central and southern Mexico].
- T. bolivari Carcavallo, Martínez & Peláez, 1987
- T. bouvieri Larrousse, 1924
- T. brailovskyi Martínez, Carcavallo & Peláez, 1984
- T. brasiliensisTriatoma brasiliensisTriatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911 is now considered the most important Chagas disease vector in the semiarid areas of northeastern Brazil. T. brasiliensis occurs in 12 Brazilian states, including Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Paraíba.T. brasiliensis is native to this part of...
Neiva, 1911b (Tc) [main vector in the caatinga area of northeastern Brazil]. - T. breyeri Del Ponte, 1929
- T. carcavalloi Jurberg et al., 1998
- T. carrioni Larrousse, 1926 (Tc)
- T. cavernicola Else & Cheong, in Else et al.,1977
- T. circummaculata (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
- T. costalimai Verano & Galvão, 1958 (Tc)
- T. deaneorum Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1967
- T. delpontei Romaña & Abalos, 1947 (Tc)
- T. dimidiataTriatoma dimidiataTriatoma dimidiata is a blood-sucking insect whose range extends from northern South America , throughout all the countries of Central America and into Southern Mexico. It is among the most important carriers of Trypanosoma cruzi, the flagellate protozoa that causes Chagas disease...
(Latreille, 1811) (Tc) [important vector in parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador]. - T. dispar Lent, 195 (Tc)
- T. dominicanaTriatoma dominicanaTriatoma dominicana is an extinct species of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae, the kissing bugs known from early Miocene Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola.....
PoinarGeorge Poinar, Jr.George O. Poinar, Jr. is an entomologist and writer. He is known for popularizing the idea of extracting DNA from insects fossilized in amber, an idea which received widespread attention when adapted by Michael Crichton for the book and movie Jurassic Park.Poinar earned a B.S. and M.S. at Cornell...
2005 (extinct, EoceneEoceneThe Eocene Epoch, lasting from about 56 to 34 million years ago , is a major division of the geologic timescale and the second epoch of the Paleogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Eocene spans the time from the end of the Palaeocene Epoch to the beginning of the Oligocene Epoch. The start of the...
) - T. eratyrusiformis Del Ponte, 1929 (Tc)
- T. garciabesi Carcavallo et al., 1967 (Tc)
- T. gerstaeckeri (Stal, 1859) (Tc).
- T. gomeznunezi Martinez, Carcavallo & Jurberg, 1994
- T. guasayana Wygodzinsky & Abalos, 1949 (Tc)
- T. guazu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979
- T. hegneri Mazzotti, 1940 (Tc)
- T. incrassata Usinger, 1939
- T. indictiva Neiva, 1912
- T. infestansTriatoma infestansTriatoma infestans, commonly called vinchuca and also known as "barber bug", is a blood-sucking bug and the most important vector of Trypanosoma cruzi which can lead to Chagas disease...
(Klug, 1834) (Tc) [most important vector in southern cone countries]. - T. juazeirensisTriatoma juazeirensisTriatoma juazeirensis is an assassin bug, a newly described Chagas disease vector which occurs in the State of Bahia, Brazil. It is found in natural and artificial environments infesting mainly the peridomiciliary areas but it may also colonize the intradomicile. T...
Costa & Felix, 2007 (Tc) - T. jurbergi Carcavallo et al., 1998b
- T. klugi Carcavallo et al., 2001
- T. lecticularia (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
- T. lenti Sherlock & Serafim, 1967 (Tc)
- T. leopoldi (Schoudeten, 1933)
- T. limai Del Ponte, 1929
- T. maculata (Erichson, 1848) (Tc)
- T. matogrossensis Leite & Barbosa, 1953 (Tc)
- T. melanicaTriatoma melanicaTriatoma melanica is a hematophagous insect, a Chagas disease vector, included in the Triatominae group. It occurs in the north of Minas Gerais state, Brazil, and is found exclusively in silvatic environment. However, sporadically it may also invade houses. T. melanica was originally described as...
Neiva & Lent, 1941 (Tc) - T. melanocephala Neiva & Pinto, 1923b (Tc)
- T. mexicana (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1848)
- T. migrans Breddin, 1903
- T. neotomae Neiva, 1911d (Tc)
- T. nigromaculataT. nigromaculataTriatoma nigromaculata is a sylvatic species of insect usually found in hollow trees, in vertebrate nests on trees and occasionally in human dwellings. It usually lives in relatively humid forests at high altitudes on mountain regions and foot hills . As all members of the subfamily Triatominae, T...
(Stal, 1872) (Tc) - T. nitida Usinger, 1939 (Tc)
- T. oliveirai (Neiva et al., 1939)
- T. patagonica Del Ponte, 1929 (Tc)
- T. peninsularis Usinger, 1940 (Tc)
- T. petrochiae Pinto & Barreto, 1925 (Tc)
- T. platensis Neiva, 1913 (Tc)
- T. protractaTriatoma protractaTriatoma protracta is an assassin bug of the order Hemiptera...
(Uhler, 1894) (Tc) - T. pseudomaculata Correa & Espínola, 1964 (Tc)
- T. pugasi Lent, 1953b
- T. recurva (Stal, 1868) (Tc)
- T. rubida (Uhler, 1894) (Tc)
- T. rubrofasciata (De Geer, 1773) (Tc)
- T. rubrovariaTriatoma rubrovariaTriatoma rubrovaria is an insect which is ubiquitous in Uruguay, in neighboring parts of northeastern Argentina, and in the southern states of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. This species of triatomine is found mainly among exfoliate rocks known as pedregales. It was earlier reported as T...
(Blanchard, in Blanchard & Bulle, 1843) (Tc) - T. ryckmani Zeledón & Ponce, 1972
- T. sanguisuga (Leconte, 1855) (Tc)
- T. sherlocki Ryckman, 1962
- T. sinaloensis Papa et al. 2002 (Tc)
- T. sinica Hsaio, 1965
- T. sordida (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
- T. tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926b) (Tc)
- T. vandae Carcavallo et al. 2002
- T. venosa (Stal, 1872) (Tc)
- T. vitticeps (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
- T. williami Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1965 (Tc)
- T. wygodzinskyi Lent, 1951c
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- The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruziTrypanosoma cruziTrypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoid trypanosomes. This species causes the trypanosomiasis diseases in humans and animals in America...
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- The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruzi
External links
- Information on Triatoma infestans and other members of Triatominae, by Andreas Rose
- ECLAT, European Community Latin American Network for Research on the Biology and Control of Triatominae
- more external links see: TriatominaeTriatominaeThe members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates...