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FORMAL ASSIGNATION OF THE KISSING BUG TRIATOMA LECTICULARIA (HEMIPTERA: REDUVIIDAE: TRIATOMINAE) TO THE GENUS PARATRIATOMA
Paiva, Vinicius Fernandes de et al. | Date Issued: 2021
Author
Paiva, Vinicius Fernandes de
Oliveira, Jader de
Galvão, Cleber
Justi, Silvia Andrade
Landa, José Manuel Ayala
Rosa, João Aristeu da
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Instituto de Biologia. Departamento de Biologia Animal. Campinas, SP, Brasil.
Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública. Departamento de Epidemiologia. Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
The Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Smithsonian Institution Museum Support Center, Suitland, MD, USA / Entomology Branch, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA / Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC 20013, USA.
Independent Researcher, Pleasanton, CA 94566, USA.
Universidade Estadual de São Paulo. Escola de Ciências Farmacêuticas. Araraquara, SP, Brasil.
Abstract
Abstract: The subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) comprises hematophagous insects that are vectors of Chagas disease; including species assigned to the genera Triatoma and Paratriatoma. Initial examination of Triatoma lecticularia revealed the hirsuteness covering the entire body—a characteristic and striking feature of members of the genus Paratriatoma—and a systematic study revealed several other morphological characters that are in diagnostic alignment with Paratriatoma. Based on the examination of several specimens (including the lectotype), and with the additional support of molecular and cytogenetic data, we propose the formal transferal of Triatoma lecticularia (Stål, 1859) into the genus Paratriatoma with the resulting new combination: Paratriatoma lecticularia (Stål, 1859) comb. nov. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae).
Keywords in Portuguese
Taxonomia
Vetores
Heteroptera
Triatominae
América do Norte
 
Keywords
Taxonomy
Vectors
Heteroptera
Triatomini
North America
 
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MDPI
Citation
PAIVA, Vinícius Fernandes de et al. Formal Assignation of the Kissing Bug Triatoma lecticularia (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) to the Genus Paratriatoma. Insects, v. 12, n. 538, 12 p, 2021.
DOI
10.3390/insects12060538
ISSN
2075-4450