Triatoma

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Triatoma

Triatoma infestans (nymph ?)

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Subfamily:	Triatominae
Genus:	Triatoma

Species

See text.

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 bugs that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease.

[edit] Species according to ECLAT:

T. amicitiae Lent, 1951b
T. arthurneivai Lent & Martins, 1940 (Tc)
T. bassolsae Aguilar et al., 1999 (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. bruneri (Usinger, 1944) re-erected by Lent & Jurberg, 1981
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. eratyrusiformis Del Ponte, 1929 (Tc)
T. flavida Neiva, 1911c
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. longipennis Usinger, 1939 (Tc)
T. maculata (Erichson, 1848) (Tc)
T. matogrossensis Leite & Barbosa, 1953 (Tc)
T. mazzottii Usinger, 1941 (Tc)
T. melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941 (Tc)
T. melanocephala Neiva & Pinto, 1923b (Tc)
T. melanosoma Martínez et al., 1987 (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. obscura (Maldonado & Farr, 1962)
T. oliveirai (Neiva et al., 1939)
T. pallidipennis (Stal, 1872) (Tc) [important vector in parts of central and southern Mexico].
T. patagonica Del Ponte, 1929 (Tc)
T. peninsularis Usinger, 1940 (Tc)
T. petrochiae Pinto & Barreto, 1925 (Tc)
T. phyllosoma (Burmeister, 1835) (Tc)
T. picturata Usinger, 1939 (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. sinaloensis Ryckman, 1962 (Tc)
T. sinica Hsaio, 1965
T. sordida (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
T. tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926b) (Tc)
T. venosa (Stal, 1872) (Tc)
T. vitticeps (Stal, 1859) (Tc)
T. williami Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1965 (Tc)
T. wygodzinskyi Lent, 1951c

T. arenaria (?) (Walker, 1873) (?)

(Tc) means associated with Trypanosoma cruzi

[edit] 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: Triatominae