''Triatoma'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

assassin bug The Reduviidae is a large cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemiptera and together with the Nabidae almost all species are terrestrial ambush predators; most other predatory Hemiptera ...

in 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 ...

(kissing bugs). The members of ''Triatoma'' (like all members of Triatominae) are blood-sucking insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as

Chagas disease Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by ''Trypanosoma cruzi''. It is spread mostly by insects in the subfamily Triatominae, known as "kissing bugs". The symptoms change throughout the ...

. Their saliva may also trigger allergic reactions in sensitive individuals, up to and including severe anaphylactic shock.

Species

These are species according to reliable sources. While most species are found in the New World, a few are known from the Old World. NOTE: ''The designation (Tc) signifies that the species is 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 ...

''. * ''

Triatoma amicitiae ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Lent, 1951 * '' Triatoma arthurneivai'' Lent & Martins, 1940 * '' Triatoma bahiensis'' Sherlock & Serafim, 1967 * ''

Triatoma baratai ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Carcavallo & Jurberg, 2000 * '' Triatoma barberi'' Usinger, 1939 * ''

Triatoma bolivari ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Carcavallo, Martínez & Pelaez, 1984 * ''

Triatoma boliviana ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Avendaño, 2007 * ''

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

'' Larrousse, 1924 * ''

Triatoma brailovskyi ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Martínez, Carcavallo & Pelaez, 1984 * ''

Triatoma brasiliensis ''Triatoma brasiliensis'' is now considered the most important Chagas disease vector in the semiarid areas of northeastern Brazil. ''T. brasiliensis'' occurs in 12 Brazilian states, including Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, and Pa ...

'' Neiva, 1911 * ''

Triatoma breyeri ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Del Ponte, 1929, possible synonym of ''

Mepraia breyeri ''Mepraia'' is a genus in the subfamily Triatominae, endemic in Chile, and vectors of Chagas disease Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by ''Trypanosoma cruzi''. It is spread most ...

'' * ''

Triatoma carcavalloi ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Jurberg, Rocha & Lent, 1998 * ''

Triatoma carrioni ''Triatoma carrioni'' is a blood-sucking bug and probable vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chagas disease. It was discovered by F. Larrousse in 1926. Type: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D ...

'' Larrousse, 1926 * ''

Triatoma cavernicola ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Else & Cheong, 1977 * ''

Triatoma circummaculata ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' (Stål, 1859) * ''

Triatoma costalimai ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Verano & Galvão, 1959 * ''

Triatoma deaneorum ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1967 * ''

Triatoma delpontei ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Romaña & Abalos, 1947 * ''

Triatoma dimidiata ''Triatoma dimidiata'' is a blood-sucking insect whose range extends from northern South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Peru), throughout all the countries of Central America and into Southern Mexico. It is among the most important ca ...

'' (Latreille, 1811) (Tc) mportant vector in parts of Mexico, Central America, Colombia and Ecuador * '' Triatoma dispar'' Lent, 1950 * ''

Triatoma garciabesi ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Carcavallo, 1967 * ''

Triatoma gerstaeckeri ''Triatoma gerstaeckeri'' is an assassin bug in the genus ''Triatoma'' (kissing bugs). It is an important vector of ''Trypanosoma cruzi'', the causative agent of Chagas disease.Kjos, Sonia A., Paula L. Marcet, and Ellen M. Dotson. "Identificatio ...

'' (Stål, 1859) * ''

Triatoma gomeznunezi ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Martínez, Carcavallo & Jurberg, 1994 * '' Triatoma guasayana'' Wygodzinsky & Abalos, 1949 * '' Triatoma guazu'' Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979 * ''

Triatoma hegneri ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Mazzotti, 1940 * ''

Triatoma huehuetenanguensis ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Lima-Cordón, 2019 (Tc) * '' Triatoma incrassata'' Usinger, 1939 * '' Triatoma indictiva'' Neiva, 1912 * ''

Triatoma infestans ''Triatoma infestans'', commonly called winchuka or vinchuca in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, barbeiro in Brazil, chipo in Venezuela and also known as "kissing bug" or "barber bug" in English, is a blood-sucking bug (like virtually a ...

'' (Klug, 1834) * '' Triatoma jatai'' Gonçalves, 2013 * '' Triatoma juazeirensis'' Costa & Felix, 2007 * '' Triatoma jurbergi'' Carcavallo, Galvão & Lent, 1998 * ''

Triatoma klugi ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Carcavallo, Jurberg, Lent & Galvão, 2001 * '' Triatoma lecticularia'' (Stål, 1859) * ''

Triatoma lenti ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Sherlock & Serafim, 1967 * '' Triatoma leopoldi'' (Schouteden, 1933) * '' Triatoma limai'' Del Ponte, 1929 * ''

Triatoma maculata ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' (Erichson, 1848) * ''

Triatoma matogrossensis ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Leite & Barbosa, 1953 * '' Triatoma melanocephala'' Neiva & Pinto, 1923 * '' Triatoma mexicana'' (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1848) * ''

Triatoma migrans ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Breddin, 1903 * ''

Triatoma mopan ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Dorn, 2018 (Tc) * ''

Triatoma neotomae ''Triatoma neotomae'' is a species of kissing bug in the family Reduviidae The Reduviidae is a large Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the Order (biology), order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemi ...

'' Neiva, 1911 * ''

Triatoma nigromaculata ''Triatoma nigromaculata'' is a sylvatic species of insect usually found in hollow trees, in vertebrate nests on trees and occasionally in human dwellings. It usually lives in relatively humid forests at high altitudes on mountain regions and foo ...

'' (Stål, 1872) * '' Triatoma nitida'' Usinger, 1939 * '' Triatoma oliveirai'' (Neiva, Pinto & Lent, 1939) * '' Triatoma patagonica'' Del Ponte, 1929 * '' Triatoma peninsularis'' Usinger, 1940 * '' Triatoma petrochiae'' Pinto & Barreto, 1925 * '' Triatoma pintodiasi'' Jurberg, Cunha & Rocha, 2013 * ''

Triatoma platensis ''Triatoma platensis'' is an ornitophilic species of triatomine in the family Reduviidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. ...

'' Neiva, 1913 * ''

Triatoma protracta ''Triatoma protracta'' is a species of bugs in the family Reduviidae. It is known commonly as the western bloodsucking conenose.

'' (Uhler, 1894) (western conenose) * ''

Triatoma pseudomaculata ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Correa & Espínola, 1964 * '' Triatoma pugasi'' Lent, 1953 * '' Triatoma recurva'' (Stål, 1868) * ''

Triatoma rubida ''Triatoma rubida'' is a species of kissing bug in the family Reduviidae The Reduviidae is a large Cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family of the suborder Heteroptera of the Order (biology), order Hemiptera (true bugs). Among the Hemipt ...

'' (Uhler, 1894) * ''

Triatoma rubrofasciata ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' (De Geer, 1773) * ''

Triatoma rubrovaria ''Triatoma rubrovaria'' is a species of triatomine that is ubiquitous to Uruguay, neighboring parts of northeastern Argentina, and in the southern states of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. It was earlier reported as ''T. (triatoma) r ...

'' (Blanchard, 1843) * ''

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

'' Zeledón & Ponce, 1972 * '' Triatoma sanguisuga'' (Leconte, 1856) (eastern blood-sucking conenose) * '' Triatoma sherlocki'' Papa, Jurberg, Carcavallo, Cerqueira & Barata, 2002 * '' Triatoma sinaloensis'' Ryckman, 1962 * ''

Triatoma sinica ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Hsiao, 1965 * ''

Triatoma sordida ''Triatoma sordida'' is an assassin bug (Family Reduviidae) within the genus ''Triatoma''. This species consists of three subspecies. Also referred to as Triatominae, kissing bugs, ''T.'' ''sordida'' are most well known for their role as a second ...

'' (Stal, 1859) * '' Triatoma tibiamaculata'' (Pinto, 1926) * ''

Triatoma vandae ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' Carcavallo, Jurberg, Rocha, Galvão, Noireau & Lent, 2002 * ''

Triatoma venosa ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' (Stal, 1872) * ''

Triatoma vitticeps ''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 insects that can transmit serious diseases, such as Chagas disease. Their saliva ...

'' (Stål, 1859) * '' Triatoma williami'' Galvão, Souza & Lima, 1965 * '' Triatoma wygodzinskyi'' Lent, 1951 Fossil taxa: * †''

Triatoma dominicana ''Triatoma dominicana'' is an extinct species of assassin bug in the subfamily Triatominae, the kissing bugs known from early Miocene Burdigalian stage Dominican amber deposits on the island of Hispaniola. The species is known from a single 5th ...

'' Poinar, 2005

References

External links

Information on ''Triatoma infestans'' and other members of Triatominae
by Andreas Rose
ECLAT
European Community Latin American Network for Research on the Biology and Control of Triatominae * more external links see:

{{Authority control Reduviidae Insect vectors of human pathogens Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau