Eratyrus genus

Eratyrus (Stal 1859) - Two species:

1. Eratyrus cuspidatus (West Colombia, West Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Venezuela)
2. Eratyrus mucronatus (Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad, Venezuela) - In Domiciliation process

Distribution

Characteristics

- Large insects (23-29 mm)

- Basic color black, with few pattern elements

- Head and thorax not granulose, with short setae only

- Head elongate, narrowly cylindrical

- Antenniferous tubercles situated at middle of anteocular region of head

- Rostrum as long as head, slender, extending to level of prosternum; first and secod segments elongate, third very short

- Anterior lobe of pronotum with conspicuous discal tubercles or spines

- Prosternum with stridulatory sulcus

- Scutellum with long process, as long as or longer than main body scutellum, reflexed, acute

- Femora armed with series ofsmall denticles

- Spongy fossulae present in males

Biology

- Associated with bats

- Naturally infected by T. cruzi

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Galvão C, Carcavallo R, Da Silva Rocha D & Jurberg J. 2003. A checklist of the current valid species of the subfamily Triatominae Jeannel, 1919 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) and their geographical distribution, with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa, 202: 1-36.

Lent H & Jurberg J. 1970. O gênero Eratyrus Stal, 1859, com um estudo sôbre a genitalia externa (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae). Rev. Brasileira Biol., 30(2): 297-312.

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.

OPS-ECO/MSAS-SNCh. 1985. Factores Biologicos y Ecologicos en la Enfermedad de Chagas. I and II, Buenos Aires.