Ru. Carcavallo et al., TRIATOMA JURBERGI SP. N. FROM THE STATE O F MATO-GROSSO, BRAZIL (HEMIPTERA, REDUVIIDAE, TRIATOMINAE) WITH AN UPDATED LIST OF SYNONYMS AND OTHER TAXA, Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 93(4), 1998, pp. 459-464
Triatoma jurbergi n. sp. is described based on nine specimens of both
sexes deposited in the Rodolfo Carcavallo Collection in the Oswaldo Cr
uz Institute Entomological Collection. The new species can be separate
d from the closely related Triatoma guazu Lent & Wygodzinsky, 1979 by
several characters. The most important are longer anteocular region, t
hin and pointed juga, the shape of the eyes without concavity in the p
osterior edge; much longer second rostral segment, passing the posteri
or edge of eye; the absence of a ventral longitudinal depression on th
e abdomen, the general color redish, brown and orange and the male gen
italia, mainly in the vesica lightly chitinized and smaller the phallo
some with apical projection and the pointed apex of the endosome proce
ss.