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Species Triatoma rubida

Female Triatoma rubida - Triatoma rubida - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)

Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)

Infraorder Cimicomorpha

Family Reduviidae (Assassin Bugs)

Subfamily Triatominae (Kissing Bugs)

Genus Triatoma (Bloodsucking Conenoses)

Species rubida (Triatoma rubida)

Explanation of Names

Triatoma rubida (Uhler 1894)

rubida = 'reddish'

Size

15.5-23 mm (CDC 2010)

Identification

See species page (CDC 2010)

Range

sw US (CA-s.NV to TX) / Mex. - Map (1)(2)

Remarks

Type Locality: Mexico

Works Cited

1.	Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.

2.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

Contributed by Eric R. Eaton on 3 November, 2006 - 5:36pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov, Harsi S. Parker
Last updated 30 June, 2023 - 3:41pm

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