Biology:Triatoma carrioni

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Short description: Species of true bug

Triatoma carrioni
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Genus: Triatoma
Species:
T. carrioni
Binomial name
Triatoma carrioni
Larrousse, 1926

Triatoma carrioni is a blood-sucking bug and probable vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chagas disease.[1] It was discovered by F. Larrousse in 1926.

Type: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Paratype M: FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro.

Type locality: Loja Province, Ecuador.

Distribution: South Ecuador, North Peru.

Biology: silvatic, rodent nests and opossum lodges; also peridomestic, and occasionally in houses.

References

Wikidata ☰ Q7840243 entry