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... > Eukaryota > Animals > Invertebrates > Arthropods > Insecta > Hemiptera > Heteroptera > Reduviidae > Triatominae

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Triatominae  

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  • vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi; do not use /drug eff for insecticides: TN 111

Scope note

  • A subfamily of assassin bugs (REDUVIIDAE) that are obligate blood-suckers of vertebrates. Included are the genera TRIATOMA; RHODNIUS; and PANSTRONGYLUS, which are vectors of TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI, the agent of CHAGAS DISEASE in humans.

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  • 91(67)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014225

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