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Reduvioidea
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Reduviidae
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Triatominae
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Triatomini
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Triatoma
Triatoma platensis Neiva 1913
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Economic and sanitary importance
- Argentina
- Buenos Aires
- Catamarca
- Chaco
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Formosa
- Jujuy
- La Pampa
- La Rioja
- Mendoza
- Río Negro
- Salta
- San Juan
- San Luis
- Santa Fe
- Santiago del Estero
- Tucumán
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Bolivia and Paraguay (Lent y Wygodzinsky 1979, Ceccarelli et al. 2018).
- Triatoma rosenbuschi Mazza 1936
It has been found naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi' It mainly lives in birds nests, but it also have been found in primitively constructed chicken houses or goat corrals (Lent y Wygodzinsky 1979).
Two sintypes of Triatoma rosenbuschi deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
Two sintypes of Triatoma rosenbuschi deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
- PENNINGTON, M.S. 1920-1921. Lista de los Hemípteros Heterópteros de la República Argentina. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 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.
- 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
