P. howardi
P. howardi (Neiva, 1911)
Distribution:
Ecuador
Characteristics:
- Overall color dark brown or black, with reddish or yellowish areas on pronotum, scutellum, hemelytra, and abdomen with connexivum
- head entirely black, shorter than pronotum
- Pronotum black; orange-red on anterolateral processes, discal tubercles of anterior lobe and lateral carinae with lateral tubercles
- Scutellum black; process dark at base, reddish on apical half, about 2/3 as long as main body of scutellum, with rounded apex
- Legs uniformly black, slender. Femora with slight subapical protuberance but without denticles
Specimens from Tosagua, Manabi, Ecuador:
Biology:
- Wild habitat unknown, captured in domestic and peridomestic habitats from lowlands of Ecuador
- Naturally infected by Trypanosoma cruzi
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.
Dujardin JP, Schofield CJ & Panzera F. 2000. Les vecteurs de la maladie de Chagas. Recherches taxonomiques, biologiques et génétiques. Académie Royales des Sciences d'Outre-Mer.
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 & 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.
Neiva A. 1911. Contribução ao estudo dos hematofagos brasileiros e descripção de uma nova espécie de Triatoma. Brasil Med. 25(46): 461-462.