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.