Triatoma carrioni is a blood-sucking bug and probable vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chagas disease. It was discovered by F. Larrousse in 1926.
Triatoma carrioni | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Suborder: | Heteroptera |
Family: | Reduviidae |
Genus: | Triatoma |
Species: | T. carrioni |
Binomial name | |
Triatoma carrioni Larrousse, 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.
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