Triatoma

Triatoma
Triatoma infestans (nymph ?)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Hemiptera Family: Reduviidae Subfamily: Triatominae Genus: Triatoma Laporte, 1832
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 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. 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) (?)

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

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

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