Rhodnius

Rhodnius

Taxobox | name = "Rhodnius"


image_width = 240px
image_caption = "Rhodnius prolixus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
familia = Reduviidae
subfamilia = Triatominae
genus = "Rhodnius"
genus_authority = Stål, 1859
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Rhodnius" is a genus of bugs in the subfamily Triatominae, important vectors of Chagas disease.

pecies

*"Rhodnius brethesi" Matta, 1919 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius colombiensis" Moreno Mejía, Galvão & Jurberg, 1999.
*"Rhodnius dalessandroi" Carcavallo & Barreto, 1976
*"Rhodnius domesticus" Neiva & Pinto, 1923 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius ecuadoriensis" Lent & León, 1958 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius milesi" Carcavallo, Rocha, Galvão, Jurberg (in: Valente et al., 2001)
*"Rhodnius nasutus" Stal, 1859 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius neglectus" Lent, 1954 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius neivai" Lent, 1953
*"Rhodnius pallescens" Barber, 1932 (Tc) (principal vector in Panama).
*"Rhodnius paraensis" Sherlock, Guitton & Miles, 1977 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius pictipes" Stal, 1872 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius prolixus" Stal, 1859 (Tc) (principal vector in Colombia and Venezuela, and in Guatemala, Honduras and some parts of Nicaragua and El Salvador).
*"Rhodnius robustus" Larrousse, 1927 (Tc)
*"Rhodnius stali" Lent, Jurberg & Galvão, 1993 (Tc)

Species marked with (Tc) are associated with "Trypanosoma cruzi"


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