Triatoma
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.
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. 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, Eocene)
- 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
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- The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruzi.
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