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COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ANTENNAL PHENOTYPE IN SPECIES OF THE BELMINUS (HEMIPTERA: TRIATOMINAE) GENUS USING OPTICAL AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY
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Universidad de Santander. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Naturales y Agropecuarias. Grupo de Investigaciones en Ciencias Básicas y Aplicadas para la Sostenibilidad (CIBAS), Bucaranga, Colombia / Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ciencias. Laboratorio de Parasitologia Experimental. Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela.
Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ciencias. Laboratorio de Parasitologia Experimental. Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela.
Universidad Industrial de Santander. Centro de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales. Santander, Colombia.
Universidad Industrial de Santander. Centro de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales. Santander, Colombia.
Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ciencias. Laboratorio de Entomología ‘Herman Lent’. República Bolivariana de Venezuela / University of Richmond. School of Art & Sciences. Department of Biology. Richmond, VA, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Centro Regional de Investigación Científica y Transferencia Tecnológica de La Rioja. CRILAR-CONICET, 5301, Anillaco, Argentina.
Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ciencias. Laboratorio de Parasitologia Experimental. Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela.
Universidad Industrial de Santander. Centro de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales. Santander, Colombia.
Universidad Industrial de Santander. Centro de Investigaciones en Enfermedades Tropicales. Santander, Colombia.
Universidad de Los Andes. Facultad de Ciencias. Laboratorio de Entomología ‘Herman Lent’. República Bolivariana de Venezuela / University of Richmond. School of Art & Sciences. Department of Biology. Richmond, VA, USA.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Centro Regional de Investigación Científica y Transferencia Tecnológica de La Rioja. CRILAR-CONICET, 5301, Anillaco, Argentina.
Abstract
The genus Belminus Stål, 1859 is distinguished by markedly entomophagous species. This genus is a poorly studied group of the Triatominae (Jeannel, 1919), which includes hematophagous species that are vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi (Chagas, 1909), the etiological agent of Chagas disease. This study reports for the first time the description of the antennal sensilla of Belminus corredori (Galvão & Angulo, 2003), Belminus herreri (Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979), and Belminus ferroae (Sandoval, Pabón, Jurberg & Galvão, 2007) nymphs and adults throughout scanning electron microscopy and optical microscopy. Nine morphological types of sensilla were identified in the three species, including bristles I and II, trichobothria, tapered hairs, thin-walled trichoid, thickwalled trichoid, basiconic, campaniform, and coeloconica sensilla. The analysis of the most abundant types of sensilla and their distribution in nymphs and adults shows similarities with the antennal phenotypes described in other Triatominae. Quantitative differences showed the important phenotypic plasticity of this morphological trait in the genus and allowed for the separation of the species in both sexes. These differences were associated with sexual dimorphism and wing condition (macropterous and brachypterous). The role of the antennal phenotype in sexual behavior, its usefulness as a taxonomic tool, and its relationship with the dispersal capacity of these species are discussed.
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