Triatoma carrioni

Taxobox
name = "Triatoma carrioni"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Hemiptera
subordo = Heteroptera
familia = Reduviidae
subfamilia = Triatominae
genus = "Triatoma"
species = "T. carrioni"
binomial = "Triatoma carrioni"
binomial_authority =

Triatoma carrioni is a blood-sucking bug and probably vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chaga's disease. 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.

Note: Spanish name: chinche de caballo