Triatomíneos da Amazônia II. Encontro do Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus (Champion, 1899) no Estado do Amazonas (Hemiptera, Reiluviidae)

Abstract

Sinopse Os AA assinalam pela primeira vez a presença do Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus no Estado do Amazonas. O exemplar foi capturado na foz do rio Preto, afluente do rio Unini, bacia do Rio Negro.

Eratyrus mucronatus Stål, 1859 and Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus (Champion, 1899) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): first records in a riverside community of Rio Negro, Amazonas state, Brazil

“…In Brazil, has been found in Acre, Amazonas, Pará, and Mato Grosso (Galvão 2014;Oliveira et al 2019). The first specimen captured in Amazonas was at the mouth of the Rio Preto, a tributary of Rio Unini, part of the Rio Negro basin (Almeida and Santos 1973). However, infection of P. rufotuberculatus with T. cruzi has already been reported (Sousa et al 1983;Salomón et al 1999).…”

Trypanosoma cruzi infection in triatomines (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from rural areas of the state of Pará, Brazil

“…This is the first report of an intradomicile catch and the second recorded occurrence of P. rufotuberculatus in Pará, Brazil. In Brazil, few P. rufotuberculatus specimen have been captured, and only in the forested areas of the north and west-central regions of the country (Rodrigues & Melo, 1942;Miles et al, 1981;Almeida, 1973;Castro et al, 2010;Jurberg et al, 2014). This species had not been reported in the state of Pará since 1981 when a specimen was captured in a…”