Bolbodera (Valdés 1910) - One species:

1. Bolbodera scabrosa (Cuba)

Bolbodera scabrosa (Valdés 1910)

Distribution

Characteristics

- Small triatomines (<10mm)

- General color black and red

- Ocelli not elevated, situated at level of integument

- Rostrum with first segment much shorter than second

- Scutellum triangular, with well-developed posterior process

- Genae apically pointed (spiniform), very slightly compressed laterally at base, surpassing clypeus, the latter widened subbasally, tapering at base

- Bucculae fully exposed

- Posterior region of the head subglobose

- Postocular furrow well perceptible, broadly U-shaped

- Eyes small in lateral view

- Tibia slender, cylinfrical. Tarsi three segmented, one third of the tibiae length. Spongy fossulae absent.

Biology

This specie was collected in nests of the rodent Capromys pilorides (Say); should have also Capromys melanurus as host (Lent & Wigondzinsky 1979).

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Carcavallo RU, Galindez Giron, I, Jurberg, J & Lent H. 1998. Atlas of Chagas’ disease vectors in the Americas. Vol I, II, III. FioCruz Edition.

Lent H & Jurberg J. 1984. A genitalia externa na tribo Bolboderini (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, 79(1): 1-27.

Lent H & Wygodzinsky P. 1979. Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae), and their significance as vectors of Chagas disease. Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist. 163 (Art. 3): 125-520.

Usinger, RL. 1939. Descriptions of new Triatominae with a key to genera (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). Univ. California Publ. Entomol., 7: 33-56 (Callotriatoma).

Usinger, RL. 1944. The Triatominae of North and Central America and the West Indies and their public Health significance. Public. Health Bull. N°288, 83pp (Bolbodera scabrosa).

Valdés R. 1910. Clasificación Gundlach de Hemipteros cubanos, conforme a los ejemplares que existen en el Museo del Instituto de 2° enseñanza de La Habana. An. Acad. Cienc. Med. Fis. Nat. La Habana. Rev. Cient., 46: 425-446 (Bolbodera).

Valdés R. 1914. Zoologia: Catalogo general. Museo Cubano “Gundlach”. La Habana, 152 pp. (Bolbodera).