Triatoma 2205845 224890235 2008-07-10T21:29:54Z Filll 2379776 /* Species according to ECLAT: */ italic {{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]] {{Hemiptera-stub}} [[Category:Hemiptera]] [[Category:Pest insects]] [[fr:Triatoma]]