Description of a new species of Nesotriatoma Usinger, 1944 from Cuba and revalidation of synonymy between Nesotriatoma bruneri (Usinger, 1944) and N. flavida (Neiva, 1911) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae)

Universidade Estadual Paulista. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas. Araraquara, SP, Brasil.
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University of Vermont. Department of Biology. Burlington, VT, USA.
Universidade Estadual Paulista. Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas. Araraquara, SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório de Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.

Abstract

Nesotriatoma confusa sp. nov. (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) is described based on specimens from Cuba. From one male, one female, and eleven nymphs of a then-undescribed species of Nesotriatoma collected in Cuba, a colony was formed and its specimens were used to describe N. confusa sp. nov. Characters were observed on the head, thorax, abdomen, female external genitalia, and male genitalia with optical microscopy and scanning electron microscopy. We concluded that N. bruneri (Usinger, 1944) was indeed a synonym of N. flavida (Neiva, 1911) as previously proposed.

Keywords in Portuguese

Doença de Chagas
Triatominae
novas espécies
Taxonomia
Sinonímia

Keywords

Taxonomy.
Synomymy
Triatominae
new species
Chagas Disease

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Wiley

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OLIVEIRA, Jader de; et al. Description of a new species of Nesotriatoma Usinger, 1944 from Cuba and revalidation of synonymy between Nesotriatoma bruneri (Usinger, 1944) and N. flavida (Neiva, 1911) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae). Journal of Vector Ecology, v.43, n.1, p.148-157, 2018.

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1081-1710

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