Distribution

Characteristics

- Males: 24-27 mm; females: 25-31 mm

- Fore lobe of pronotum with low apically rounded discal tubercles

- Humeral angles angular or pointed but not spinose

- Subapical reddish spot of corium relatively large compared to E. mucronatus

Biology

- Occasionally in houses, attracted by artificial light

- Has been reported as associated with bats

- Naturally infected by T. cruzi

- In palm tree Scheelea sp., in hollow trees with bats; in tatu shelters

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.

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