Triatoma juazeirensis is an assassin bug

Reduviidae

Reduviidae is a large, cosmopolitan family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera...

, a newly described 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,...

 vector which occurs in the State of Bahia

Bahia

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, Brazil

Brazil

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. It is found in natural and artificial environments infesting mainly the peridomiciliary areas but it may also colonize the intradomicile. T. juazeirensis can be distinguished from the other members of the brasiliensis complex by its entire dark pronotum and legs.