Triatoma

Triatoma is a genus of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae (kissing bugs.) The members of Triatoma (like all members of Triatominae) are blood-sucking bugs that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease.

Species according to ECLAT:

 * T. amicitiae Lent, 1951b
 * T. arthurneivai Lent & Martins, 1940 (Tc)
 * T. bassolsae Aguilar et al., 1999 (Tc)
 * T. baratai Carcavallo & Jurberg, 2000
 * T. barberi Usinger, 1939  (Tc) [main vector in parts of central and southern Mexico].
 * T. bolivari Carcavallo, Martínez & Peláez, 1987
 * T. bouvieri Larrousse, 1924
 * T. brailovskyi Martínez, Carcavallo & Peláez, 1984
 * T. brasiliensis Neiva, 1911b  (Tc) [main vector in the caatinga area of northeastern Brazil].
 * T. breyeri Del Ponte, 1929
 * T. bruneri (Usinger, 1944) re-erected by Lent & Jurberg, 1981
 * T. carcavalloi Jurberg et al., 1998
 * T. carrioni Larrousse, 1926  (Tc)
 * T. cavernicola Else & Cheong, in Else et al.,1977
 * T. circummaculata (Stal, 1859)  (Tc)
 * T. costalimai Verano & Galvão, 1958  (Tc)
 * T. deaneorum Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1967
 * T. delpontei Romaña & Abalos, 1947  (Tc)
 * T. dimidiata (Latreille, 1811)  (Tc) [important vector in parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador].
 * T. dispar Lent, 195  (Tc)
 * T. eratyrusiformis Del Ponte, 1929   (Tc)
 * T. flavida Neiva, 1911c
 * T. garciabesi Carcavallo et al., 1967  (Tc)
 * T. gerstaeckeri (Stal, 1859)  (Tc).
 * T. gomeznunezi Martinez, Carcavallo & Jurberg, 1994
 * T. guasayana Wygodzinsky & Abalos, 1949   (Tc)
 * T. guazu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979
 * T. hegneri Mazzotti, 1940  (Tc)
 * T. incrassata Usinger, 1939
 * T. indictiva Neiva, 1912
 * T. infestans (Klug, 1834)  (Tc) [most important vector in southern cone countries].
 * T. juazeirensis Costa & Felix, 2007 (Tc)
 * T. jurbergi Carcavallo et al., 1998b
 * T. klugi Carcavallo et al., 2001
 * T. lecticularia (Stal, 1859)  (Tc)
 * T. lenti Sherlock & Serafim, 1967  (Tc)
 * T. leopoldi (Schoudeten, 1933)
 * T. limai Del Ponte, 1929
 * T. longipennis Usinger, 1939   (Tc)
 * T. maculata (Erichson, 1848)  (Tc)
 * T. matogrossensis Leite & Barbosa, 1953  (Tc)
 * T. mazzottii Usinger, 1941  (Tc)
 * T. melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941 (Tc)
 * T. melanocephala Neiva & Pinto, 1923b  (Tc)
 * T. melanosoma Martínez et al., 1987  (Tc)
 * T. mexicana (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1848)
 * T. migrans Breddin, 1903
 * T. neotomae Neiva, 1911d  (Tc)
 * T. nigromaculata (Stal, 1872)  (Tc)
 * T. nitida Usinger, 1939  (Tc)
 * T. obscura (Maldonado & Farr, 1962)
 * T. oliveirai (Neiva et al., 1939)
 * T. pallidipennis (Stal, 1872)  (Tc) [important vector in parts of central and southern Mexico].
 * T. patagonica Del Ponte, 1929  (Tc)
 * T. peninsularis Usinger, 1940  (Tc)
 * T. petrochiae Pinto & Barreto, 1925  (Tc)
 * T. phyllosoma (Burmeister, 1835)  (Tc)
 * T. picturata Usinger, 1939  (Tc).
 * T. platensis Neiva, 1913  (Tc)
 * T. protracta (Uhler, 1894)  (Tc)
 * T. pseudomaculata Correa & Espínola, 1964  (Tc)
 * T. pugasi Lent, 1953b
 * T. recurva (Stal, 1868)  (Tc)
 * T. rubida (Uhler, 1894)  (Tc)
 * T. rubrofasciata (De Geer, 1773)  (Tc)
 * T. rubrovaria (Blanchard, in Blanchard & Bulle, 1843)  (Tc)
 * T. ryckmani Zeledón & Ponce, 1972
 * T. sanguisuga (Leconte, 1855)  (Tc)
 * T. sinaloensis Ryckman, 1962  (Tc)
 * T. sinica Hsaio, 1965
 * T. sordida (Stal, 1859)  (Tc)
 * T. tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926b)  (Tc)
 * T. venosa (Stal, 1872)  (Tc)
 * T. vitticeps (Stal, 1859)  (Tc)
 * T. williami Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1965  (Tc)
 * T. wygodzinskyi Lent, 1951c


 * T. arenaria (?) (Walker, 1873) (?)

(Tc) means associated with Trypanosoma cruzi