Triatoma

Taxobox | name = "Triatoma"

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image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Triatoma infestans" (nymph ?)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
familia = Reduviidae
subfamilia = Triatominae
genus = "Triatoma"
genus_authority = Laporte, 1832
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = 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.

pecies 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

* [http://www.arose.net/triatoma/index.htm Information on "Triatoma infestans" and other members of Triatominae] , by Andreas Rose
* [http://eclat.fcien.edu.uy/ ECLAT] , European Community Latin American Network for Research on the Biology and Control of Triatominae
*more external links see: Triatominae