Classification > Superfamily
Reduvioidea
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Reduviidae
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Triatominae
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Triatomini
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Triatoma
Triatoma rubrovaria (Blanchard 1843)
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Geographic distribution
Distribution
Economic and sanitary importance
- Argentina
- Córdoba
- Corrientes
- Entre Ríos
- Misiones
- Uruguay
Other distribution
Also known from Brazil (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979, Ceccarelli et al. 2018).
- Conorhinus phyllosoma Herrich-Schaffer 1848
- Conorhinus rubroniger Stål 1859
- Triatoma gomesi Neiva & Pinto 1923
- Triatoma bruchi Mazza & Jorg 1944
This species has been found naturally infected with Trypanosoma cruzi. The species occurs only very rarely in human habitations, it is a sylvatic species with preference for rocky habitats (stonewalls, corrals) (Lent & Wygodzinsky 1979).
Holotype of Triatoma bruchi deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
Holotype of Triatoma bruchi deposited at MACN (Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia”, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Bachmann 1999).
- 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.
- 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
