Classification > Superfamily
Reduvioidea
> Family
Reduviidae
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Triatominae
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Triatomini
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Triatoma
Triatoma infestans (Klug 1838)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Economic and sanitary importance
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Catamarca
- Chaco
- Chubut
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- La Pampa
- La Rioja
- Mendoza
- Misiones
- Neuquén
- Río Negro
- Salta
- San Juan
- San Luis
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, and Peru (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979, Ceccarelli et al. 2018).
- Conorhinus renggeri Herrich-Schaffer 1848
- Conorhinus sex-tuberculatus Spinola 1852
- Conorhinus paulseni Philippi 1860
- Conorhinus gracilipes Philippi 1860
- Conorhinus octotuberculatus Philippi 1860
- Conorhinus gigas Burmeister 1861
- Conorhinus nigrovarius Blanchard 1890
- Triatoma infestans erythrophthalmus Noe & Silva 1949
- Triatoma oswaldoi Neiva & Pinto 1923
- Triatoma sordelli Dios & Zuccarini 1926
- Triatoma mazzae Jorg 1937
- Triatoma funerea Carpintero & Leguizamon 1994
- Triatoma infestans melanosoma Martínez, Olmedo & Carcavallo 1987
This species is predominantly domestic and peridomestic, and is only occasionally found in sylvatic habitats. It is very frequently found infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, and is considered to be the main vector of Chagas' disease in southern South America.
It colonizes human habitations where it hides during daytime in cracks in the walls, in thatch roofs, among clothing, in boxes and truncks filled with objects and under mattresses. Peridomestically, is common in chicken and pigeon houses, in rabbit hutches, and in goat and sheep corrals. It has also been collected in sylvatic animals shelters, such as marsupials, rodents, and birds (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979).
Holotype of Triatoma mazzae deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
Holotype and 4 paratypes of Triatoma funerea deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 2012).
Four paratypes of Triatoma melanosoma deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 2012); and two paratypes deposited at the Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CTIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Mourão Dos Santos Rodrigues et al. 2015).
It colonizes human habitations where it hides during daytime in cracks in the walls, in thatch roofs, among clothing, in boxes and truncks filled with objects and under mattresses. Peridomestically, is common in chicken and pigeon houses, in rabbit hutches, and in goat and sheep corrals. It has also been collected in sylvatic animals shelters, such as marsupials, rodents, and birds (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979).
Holotype of Triatoma mazzae deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
Holotype and 4 paratypes of Triatoma funerea deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 2012).
Four paratypes of Triatoma melanosoma deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 2012); and two paratypes deposited at the Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CTIOC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Mourão Dos Santos Rodrigues et al. 2015).
- BERG, C. 1879. Hemiptera Argentina (continuación). Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, 7(6): 262-278.
- PENNINGTON, M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- RUFFINELLI A. & PIRÁN A.A. 1959. Hemípteros heterópteros del Uruguay. Boletín de la Facultad de Agronomía, Montevideo 51: 1–60.
- LENT, H. & P. WYGODZINSKY. 1979. Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas' disease. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 163(3): 123-520.
- BACHMANN, A.O. 1999. Catálogo de los tipos de Heteroptera (Insecta) conservados en el Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 1(2): 191-230.
- BACHMANN, A.O. 2012. A catalog of the types of Heteroptera (Insecta) deposited in the Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Buenos Aires 2. Addenda et corrigendum. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s. 14(1): 83-96.
- MOURÃO DOS SANTOS RODRIGUES J., F. FERRAZ FIGUEIREDO MOREIRA, I. DA ROCHA SILVA CORDEIRO, M. DOLSAN DE ALMEIDA & J. JURBERG. 2015. List of the type-specimens of Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) in the Triatomines Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute, Brazil. Zootaxa 3936(2): 181–206.
- CECCARELLI S., BALSALOBRE A., MEDONE P., CANO M., GURGEL-GONCALVEZ R., FELICIANGLEI D., VEZZANI D., WISNIVESKI-COLLI C., GORLA D.E., MARTI G. RABINOVICH J. 2018. DataTri, a database of American triatomine species occurrence. ScientificData 5:180071 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2018.71
