TRIATOMA JURBERGI SP. N. FROM THE STATE O F MATO-GROSSO, BRAZIL (HEMIPTERA, REDUVIIDAE, TRIATOMINAE) WITH AN UPDATED LIST OF SYNONYMS AND OTHER TAXA

Citation
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
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Tropical Medicine",Parasitiology
ISSN journal
00740276
Volume
93
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
459 - 464
Database
ISI
SICI code
0074-0276(1998)93:4<459:TJSNFT>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
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.