Triatoma wygodzinskyi Lent 1951

Triatoma wygodzinskyi Lent 1951 View in CoL

Distribution. Minas Gerais, São Paulo.

Public health importance. Triatoma wygodzinskyi is a sylvatic species and occasionally found in dwellings. It is a rupicolous species without epidemiological importance ( Carbajal-de-la-Fuente et al. 2010).

Remarks. This species is morphologically very similar to T. arthurneivai , and the identification of the latter species has led to confusion with T. wygodzinskyi in Brazil ( Carbajal-de-la-Fuente et al. 2011). The biology of T. wygodzinskyi has been reported by Carbajal-de-la-Fuente et al. (2010). Due to the mentioned misidentification, the developmental cycle previously attributed to the name T. arthurneivai , as reported by Juarez (1970), must be, in fact, considered as that of T. wygodzinskyi , as pointed out by Carbajal-de-la-Fuente (2010).