Triatoma

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
  Triatoma brasiliensis
  Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911This Triatominae species is now considered the most important Chagas disease vector in the semiarid areas of Brazil. It occurs in the States of Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Paraíba...
  
  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
  Triatoma dimidiata
  Triatoma dimidiata is a blood-sucking insect and it is among the most important vectors of Chagas disease. It is found from northern South America , throughout all the countries of Central America and into Southern Mexico...
  
  (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
  Triatoma infestans
  Triatoma infestans is a blood-sucking bug and the most important vector of Chagas disease. It is widespread in the Southern Cone countries of South America; that is, in Bolivia, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil and Peru. In all these countries T...
  
  (Klug, 1834) (Tc) [most important vector in southern cone countries].
• T. juazeirensis
  Triatoma juazeirensis
  Triatoma juazeirensis is an assassin bug, a newly described Chagas disease vector which occurs in the State of Bahia, Brazil. It is found in natural and artificial environments infesting mainly the peridomiciliary areas but it may also colonize the intradomicile. T...
  
  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
  Triatoma melanica
  Triatoma melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941This insect is hematophagous, a Chagas disease vector, included in the Triatominae group. It occurs in the north of Minas Gerais State, Brazil, and is found exclusively in silvatic environment. However, sporadically it may also invade houses. T. melanica was...
  
  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
  T. nigromaculata
  Triatoma nigromaculata is a sylvatic species of insect usually found in hollow trees, in vertebrate nests on trees and occasionally in human dwellings. It usually lives in relatively humid forests at high altitudes on mountain regions and foot hills . As all members of the subfamily Triatominae, T...
  
  (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
  Triatoma protracta
  Triatoma protracta is an assassin bug of the order Hemiptera. A 2 cm, brown-black nocturnal insect found in forests. Common in the southwestern USA....
  
  (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
  Triatoma rubrovaria
  Triatoma rubrovaria is a widespread insect in Uruguay, and some neighboring parts of northeastern Argentina. In Brazil, its presence has been confirmed only in the southern states of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul. This species of triatomine is found mainly among exfoliate rocks known as pedregales....
  
  (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) (?)

• • The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruzi
    Trypanosoma cruzi
    Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoid trypanosomes. This species causes the trypanosomiasis diseases in humans and animals in America...
    
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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
  Triatominae
  The members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates...