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FLIGHT DISPERSAL OF THE CHAGAS DISEASE VECTORS TRIATOMA BRASILIENSIS AND TRIATOMA PSEUDOMACULATA IN NORTHEASTERN BRAZIL
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Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Laboratorio de Fisiología de Insectos. Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina/Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de I’lnsecte. Université François.Rabelais, Tours, France
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. Montpellier, France
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de I’lnsecte. Université François.Rabelais, Tours, France
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Triatomíneos e Epidemiologia da Doença de Chagas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Laboratorio de Fisiología de Insectos. Departamento de Biodiversidad y Biología Experimental. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires, Argentina/Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de I’lnsecte. Université François.Rabelais, Tours, France
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Departamento de Entomologia. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement. Montpellier, France
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de I’lnsecte. Université François.Rabelais, Tours, France
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou. Laboratório de Triatomíneos e Epidemiologia da Doença de Chagas. Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
Abstract
The present paper reports for the first time the capture of wild Triatoma brasiliensis and Triatoma pseudomaculata by means of light traps in Brazil. We tested commercially available lighting devices powered by batteries to attract the bugs to a white piece of cloth in the field. Two main findings showed to be significant: first, the results presented here show that light traps can be used for sampling these species in wild environments; second, they reveal that house colonization by triatomines may also happen as a consequence of the arrival of flying sylvatic bugs guided by artificial light sources. In addition, we discuss the effect of some environmental and biological factors on triatomine flight activity modulation. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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