Triatoma carrioni
| Triatoma carrioni | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Genus: | Triatoma |
| Species: | T. carrioni
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| Binomial name | |
| Triatoma carrioni Larrousse, 1926
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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[edit]
- ^ Padilla NA, Moncayo AL, Keil CB, Grijalva MJ, Villacís AG (April 2019). "Life Cycle, Feeding, and Defecation Patterns of Triatoma carrioni (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), Under Laboratory Conditions". Journal of Medical Entomology. 56 (3): 617–624. doi:10.1093/jme/tjz004. PMC 6467638. PMID 30768666.