Triatoma
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{{Taxobox | name = ''Triatoma''
| image = Triatoma_infestans.jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = ''[[Triatoma infestans]]'' (nymph ?)
| regnum = [[Animalia]]
| phylum = [[Arthropoda]]
| classis = [[Insecta]]
| ordo = [[Hemiptera]]
| familia = [[Reduviidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Triatominae]]
| genus = '''''Triatoma'''''
| 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 [[hemiptera|bugs]] 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
*''[[Triatoma barberi|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
*''[[Triatoma brasiliensis|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)
*''[[Triatoma dimidiata|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
*''[[Triatoma infestans|T. infestans]]'' (Klug, 1834) (Tc) [most important vector in southern cone countries].
*''[[Triatoma juazeirensis|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)
*''[[Triatoma melanica|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)
*''[[Triatoma pallidipennis|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)
*''[[Triatoma protracta|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)
*''[[Triatoma rubrovaria|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]]
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