''Panstrongylus'' is a genus of insects that belongs to the subfamily

Triatominae The members of the Triatominae , a subfamily of the Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs (so-called from their habit of feeding from around the mouths of people), or vampire bugs. Other local names for them used in the Amer ...

. Its members are found from

Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...

into

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

Species

*''Panstrongylus chinai'' (Del Ponte, 1929) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus diasi'' Pinto & Lent, 1946 *''

Panstrongylus geniculatus ''Panstrogylus geniculatus'' is a blood-sucking sylvatic insect noted as a putative vector of minor importance in the transmission of ''Trypanosoma cruzi'' to humans; this is a parasite, which causes Chagas disease. The insect is described as syl ...

'' (Latreille 1811) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus guentheri'' Berg, 1879 (Tc) *''Panstrongylus howardi'' (Neiva, 1911) (Tc) (endemic to

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

) *''Panstrongylus humeralis'' (Usinger, 1939) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus lenti'' Galvão & Palma, 1968 *''Panstrongylus lignarius'' (Walker, 1873) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus lutzi'' (Neiva & Pinto, 1923b) (Tc) *'' Panstrongylus megistus'' (Burmeister, 1835) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus mitarakaensis'' (Bérenger & Blanchet, 2007) *''Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus'' (Champion, 1899) (Tc) *''Panstrongylus tupynambai'' Lent, 1942 (Tc) (Tc) means associated with ''

Trypanosoma cruzi ''Trypanosoma cruzi'' is a species of parasitic euglenoids. Among the protozoa, the trypanosomes characteristically bore tissue in another organism and feed on blood (primarily) and also lymph. This behaviour causes disease or the likelihood ...

References

{{Authority control Hemiptera of South America Reduviidae Insect vectors of human pathogens Cimicomorpha genera