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MORPHOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS NEIVA, 1911 (HEMIPTERA, REDUVIIDAE, TRIATOMINAE) GENITAL STRUCTURES AND EGGS OF DIFFERENT CHROMATIC FORMS
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Coleção Entomológica. Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Coleção Entomológica. Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Sociedade Barramansense de Ensino Superior. Departamento de Ecologia. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Sociedade Barramansense de Ensino Superior. Departamento de Ecologia. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular. Laboratório de Sistemática Bioquímica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade de Montevidéu. Faculdade de Ciências. Seção de Genética Evolutiva. Montevideo, Uruguai.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Coleção Entomológica. Laboratório de Ultraestrutura Viral. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Sociedade Barramansense de Ensino Superior. Departamento de Ecologia. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Sociedade Barramansense de Ensino Superior. Departamento de Ecologia. Barra Mansa, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular. Laboratório de Sistemática Bioquímica. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Universidade de Montevidéu. Faculdade de Ciências. Seção de Genética Evolutiva. Montevideo, Uruguai.
Abstract
Triatoma brasiliensis is considered one of the most important Chagas disease vectors being a widespread species in semiarid areas of northeastern Brazil. The species displays distinct chromatic patterns
of the cuticle in different localities. Four populations were analyzed in this study: 1-Caicó, Rio Grande
do Norte, it will be called the brasiliensis population; 2-Espinosa, Minas Gerais, the melanica population; 3-Petrolina, Pernambuco, the macromelasoma population, and 4-Juazeiro, Bahia, the darker one
in overall cuticle coloration, the Juazeiro population. In order to differentiate the four populations of T.
brasiliensis, a comparative morphological analysis of external genital structures and of eggs were carried out. The analysis of the male genital structures evidenced minor individual structural variations
that did not correlate with chromatic differences or the geographical origins, emphasizing the importance of examining sufficiently large and representative samples before using minor genital variations
for taxonomic diagnosis. By scanning electron microscopy of the egg exochorion, each chromatic population presented a distinct ornamentation pattern. The melanica population differed mainly from the
other populations studied since it had about 40.6%, 69.6% and 76.6% more perforations, on each cell
exochorion, than the brasiliensis, the Juazeiro and the macromelasoma populations respectively. In the
melanica population the perforation layout is also peculiar, with densely distributed perforations over
all the egg surface. Morphometric measures of the eggs showed statistically significant differences: the
macromelasoma population presented the longest length (2.43 mm) while the shortest was recorded in
the brasiliensis population (2.29 mm).
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