Triatoma

Triatoma is a genus of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae (kissing bugs). The members of Triatoma (like all members of Triatominae) are blood-sucking insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva may also trigger allergic reactions in sensitive individuals, up to and including severe anaphylactic shock.
Species
These are species according to reliable sources. While most species are found in the New World, a few are known from the Old World.
NOTE: The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is associated with Trypanosoma cruzi.
Triatoma amicitiae Lent, 1951
Triatoma arthurneivai Lent & Martins, 1940
Triatoma bahiensis Sherlock & Serafim, 1967
Triatoma baratai Carcavallo & Jurberg, 2000
Triatoma barberi Usinger, 1939
Triatoma bolivari Carcavallo, Martínez & Pelaez, 1984
Triatoma boliviana Avendaño, 2007
Triatoma bouvieri Larrousse, 1924
Triatoma brailovskyi Martínez, Carcavallo & Pelaez, 1984
Triatoma brasiliensis Neiva, 1911
Triatoma breyeri Del Ponte, 1929, possible synonym of Mepraia breyeri
Triatoma carcavalloi Jurberg, Rocha & Lent, 1998
Triatoma carrioni Larrousse, 1926
Triatoma cavernicola Else & Cheong, 1977
Triatoma circummaculata (Stål, 1859)
Triatoma costalimai Verano & Galvão, 1959
Triatoma deaneorum Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1967
Triatoma delpontei Romaña & Abalos, 1947
Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811) (Tc) [important vector in parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador].
Triatoma dispar Lent, 1950
Triatoma garciabesi Carcavallo, 1967
Triatoma gerstaeckeri (Stål, 1859)
Triatoma gomeznunezi Martínez, Carcavallo & Jurberg, 1994
Triatoma guasayana Wygodzinsky & Abalos, 1949
Triatoma guazu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979
Triatoma hegneri Mazzotti, 1940
Triatoma huehuetenanguensis Lima-Cordón, 2019 (Tc)
Triatoma incrassata Usinger, 1939
Triatoma indictiva Neiva, 1912
Triatoma infestans (Klug, 1834)
Triatoma jatai Gonçalves, 2013
Triatoma juazeirensis Costa & Felix, 2007
Triatoma jurbergi Carcavallo, Galvão & Lent, 1998
Triatoma klugi Carcavallo, Jurberg, Lent & Galvão, 2001
Triatoma lecticularia (Stål, 1859)
Triatoma lenti Sherlock & Serafim, 1967
Triatoma leopoldi (Schouteden, 1933)
Triatoma limai Del Ponte, 1929
Triatoma maculata (Erichson, 1848)
Triatoma matogrossensis Leite & Barbosa, 1953
Triatoma melanocephala Neiva & Pinto, 1923
Triatoma mexicana (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1848)
Triatoma migrans Breddin, 1903
Triatoma mopan Dorn, 2018 (Tc)
Triatoma neotomae Neiva, 1911
Triatoma nigromaculata (Stål, 1872)
Triatoma nitida Usinger, 1939
Triatoma oliveirai (Neiva, Pinto & Lent, 1939)
Triatoma patagonica Del Ponte, 1929
Triatoma peninsularis Usinger, 1940
Triatoma petrochiae Pinto & Barreto, 1925
Triatoma pintodiasi Jurberg, Cunha & Rocha, 2013
Triatoma platensis Neiva, 1913
Triatoma protracta (Uhler, 1894) (western conenose)
Triatoma pseudomaculata Correa & Espínola, 1964
Triatoma pugasi Lent, 1953
Triatoma recurva (Stål, 1868)
Triatoma rubida (Uhler, 1894)
Triatoma rubrofasciata (De Geer, 1773)
Triatoma rubrovaria (Blanchard, 1843)
Triatoma ryckmani Zeledón & Ponce, 1972
Triatoma sanguisuga (Leconte, 1856) (eastern blood-sucking conenose)
Triatoma sherlocki Papa, Jurberg, Carcavallo, Cerqueira & Barata, 2002
Triatoma sinaloensis Ryckman, 1962
Triatoma sinica Hsiao, 1965
Triatoma sordida (Stal, 1859)
Triatoma tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926)
Triatoma vandae Carcavallo, Jurberg, Rocha, Galvão, Noireau & Lent, 2002
Triatoma venosa (Stal, 1872)
Triatoma vitticeps (Stål, 1859)
Triatoma williami Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1965
Triatoma wygodzinskyi Lent, 1951
Fossil taxa:
†Triatoma dominicana Poinar, 2005
References
External links
Information on Triatoma infestans and other members of Triatominae, by Andreas Rose
ECLAT, European Community Latin American Network for Research on the Biology and Control of Triatominae
more external links see: Triatominae
Reduviidae
Insect vectors of human pathogens
Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau