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:

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, Ecuador

Thanks to CISeAL, PUCE, 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.