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Triatoma

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Scientific name
  
Triatoma

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
True bugs

Subfamily
  
Triatominae

Higher classification
  
Kissing bugs

Rank
  
Genus

Family
  
Reduviidae

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Lower classifications
  
Triatoma infestans, Triatoma dimidiata, Triatoma protracta

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. Their saliva may also trigger allergic reactions in sensitive individuals, up to and including severe anaphylactic shock.

Species according to ECLAT

NOTE: The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruzi.

  • 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. brasiliensis 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. dimidiata (Latreille, 1811) (Tc) [important vector in parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador].
  • T. dispar Lent, 195 (Tc)
  • T. dominicana Poinar 2005 (extinct, Miocene)
  • 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. infestans (Klug, 1834) (Tc) [most important vector in southern cone countries].
  • T. juazeirensis 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. melanica 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. nigromaculata (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. protracta (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. rubrovaria (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

    • References

    Triatoma Wikipedia
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