R. neivai

Rhodnius neivai (Lent, 1953)

Distribution:

In arid areas of:Colombia (Cesar) Venezuela (Falcon, Lara, Zulia)Characteristics:

- males: 17-18 mm, females: 20-21 mm

- general color uniformly dark brown or blackish; rostrum, antennae and ventral surface of abdomen reddish brown

- hemelytra short, not extending much beyond base and at most reaching middle of seventh urotergite

- pronotum entirely dark brown or black, including the carinae

- connexivum blackish, with very small reddish spots situated in posterolateral angles of connexival segments III to IV or VII

- legs uniformly blackish, slender

Biology:

- has been found occasionally in houses

- in trunks of dead trees and on the palms Copernicia tectorum, Scheelea sp.

- feed on poultry, other domestic animals, humans

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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