Talk:Triatominae

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What are the main natural enemies of the Triatominae? Is it subject to predation by other insects, birds or animals?

-Tachinidae ? sound interesting for that.

-parasitic wasps Ichneumonidae , Chalcidoidea too ?

spiders ?

scelionid wasps (Telonemus farai (Scelionidae))

[edit] Image

Not long ago, I was strolling through a bug-infested forest near Dongducheon, South Korea (I mean that in a good way), and I came across this insect:

Before I link this image to any type of article, I would like to know if this mystery insect is of the Triatominae species. It immediately seems to me that it is part of this species, but I am not too sure. I am no expert of insects, so I am wondering if someone more knowledgeable than me can demistify this critter on mere observation. Thanks!--Merkurix 15:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup tag

Needs wikification, or cleanup of notes or something, particularly at the bottom. Also seems unbalanced in terms of content. Is the article about the insect or about the diseases it transmits and the demographics of the people who are infected? Anchoress 22:29, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Redirect

"Assassin bug" redirects here. However, the term designates not only the Triatominae, but also many other Reduviidae. To be sure of this I checked in several books (Steven A. Marshall's "Insects" (2006), and Triplehorn and Johnson's "Borror and Delong's introduction to the study of insects" (2005)), and they support this. Also, a simple google search for "assassin bug" + Reduviidae gives 13,200 results, whereas "assassin bug" + Triatominae gives only 625 results. I'm therefore going to change the redirect to the Reduviidae article. IronChris | (talk) 05:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)