Triatoma genus

Triatoma (Laporte 1832) - 69 species (from which one fossil species):

1. Triatoma amicitae (Sri Lanka)
2. Triatoma arthurneivai (Brazil) - silvatic, vector of a Hemogregarina of reptile
3. Triatoma baratai (Brazil) Carcavallo & Jurberg 2000
4. Triatoma barberi (Mexico) - VECTOR in Mexico
5. Triatoma bolivari (Mexico) - Silvatic
6. Triatoma boliviana (Bolivia) - Martinez et al. 2007 - Silvatic species, light attraction
7. Triatoma bouvieri (Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Vietnam)
8. Triatoma brailovskyi (Mexico)
9. Triatoma brasiliensis (Brazil) - VECTOR in North Brazil
   1. T. b. brasiliensis
   2. T. b. melanica - Distinct species?
   3. T. b. macromelanosoma
10. Triatoma breyeri (Argentine)
11. Triatoma carcavalloi (Brazil)
12. Triatoma carrioni (South Equator, North Peru) - Between 1000-2600m
13. Triatoma cavernicola (Malaysia)
14. Triatoma circummaculata (Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay)
15. Triatoma costalimai (Brazil)
16. Triatoma deaneorum (Brazil)
17. Triatoma delpontei (Argentine, Paraguay, Uruguay) - With birds (Myiopsitta monacha), fertile with T. platensis
18. Triatoma dimidiata (Belice, Colombia, Costa Rica, Equator, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, North Peru, Venezuela) - Third VECTOR of Chagas disease
19. Triatoma dispar (Colombia, Costa Rica, Equator, Panama) - In trees, with monkeys
20. Triatoma dominicana (Dominican Republic) - fossil species, Poinar 2005
21. Triatoma eratyrusiformis (Argentine)
22. Triatoma garciabesi (Argentine)
23. Triatoma gerstaeckeri (Mexico, USA)
24. Triatoma gomeznunezi (Mexico)
25. Triatoma guasayana (Argentine, Bolivia, Paraguay) - In PERIDOMICILE
26. Triatoma guazu (Brazil, Paraguay) - In DOMICILE
27. Triatoma hegneri (Mexico)
28. Triatoma incrassata (Mexico, USA)
29. Triatoma indictiva (Mexico, USA) - silvatic species
30. Triatoma infestans (Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, South Peru, Uruguay) - Most important VECTOR - Domestic, and silvatic in Bolivia
31. Triatoma infestans melanosoma (Argentine) - Fertile with T. infestans
32. Triatoma juazeirensis (Brazil) - PERIDOMICILE - Costa & Felix 2007
33. Triatoma jurbergi (Brazil) - In DOMICILE
34. Triatoma klugi (Brazil) Carcavallo et al. 2001
35. Triatoma lecticularia (Mexico, USA) - In DOMICILE / PERIDOMICILE
36. Triatoma lenti (Brazil)
37. Triatoma leopoldi (Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea)
38. Triatoma limai (Argentine) - In rocks
39. Triatoma maculata (Aruba Island, Bonaire Island, Brazil, Colombia, Curacao, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela) - In domiciliation process
40. Triatoma matogrossensis (Brazil) - Silvatic
41. Triatoma melanocephala (Brazil) - silvatic
42. Triatoma mexicana (Mexico)
43. Triatoma migrans (India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Sarawak, Thailand)
44. Triatoma neotomae (USA)
45. Triatoma nigromaculata (Colombia, Venezuela) - In trees, with birds and Didelphis
46. Triatoma nitida (Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico) - IN DOMICILE, with or without T. dimidiata
47. Triatoma oliveirai (Brazil) - Silvatic
48. Triatoma patagonica (Argentine)
49. Triatoma peninsularis (Mexico)
50. Triatoma petrochiae (Brazil) - silvatic
51. Triatoma platensis (Argentine, South Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) - With birds, sometimes in hens' house, fertile with T. delpontei
52. Triatoma protracta (Mexico, USA) - with rodents, light attraction
    1. T. p. protracta
    2. T. p. navajoensis
    3. T. p. woodi
    4. T. p. zacatecensis
    5. T. p. nahuatlae
53. Triatoma pugasi (Indonesia)
54. Triatoma pseudomaculata (Bolivia, Brazil)
55. Triatoma recurva (Mexico, USA)
56. Triatoma rubida (Mexico)
57. Triatoma rubrofasciata (Andaman Islands, Angola, Antigua, Argentine, The Azores, Bahamas, Brazil, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, The Comoros, Cuba, Dominican Republic, French Guyana, Grenada Island, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Madagascar, Malaysia, Martinique, Mauritania, Myanmar,Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Reunion, Rodriguez Islands, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapour, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Ste Croix Island, St Vincent Island, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands, USA) - In DOMICILE, with rodents (not very anthropophagous), origin: North America
58. Triatoma rubrovaria (Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay) - In rocks, also in DOMICILE / PERIDOMICILE
59. Triatoma ryckmani (Guatemala,Honduras,Nicaragua)
60. Triatoma sanguisuga (USA) - In DOMICILE / PERIDOMICILE, infected with T. cruzi
61. Triatoma sinaloensis (Mexico, USA)
62. Triatoma sinica (China)
63. Triatoma sordida (Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay) - In DOMICILE / PERIDOMICILE
64. Triatoma tibiamaculata (Brazil)
65. Triatoma vandae (Brazil) Carcavallo et al. 2002
66. Triatoma venosa (Colombia, Equator, Panama) - Between1600-2200m
67. Triatoma vitticeps (Brazil)
68. Triatoma williami (Brazil)
69. Triatoma wygodzinskyi (Brazil)

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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.