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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies (Hemiptera) » True Bugs (Heteroptera) » Cimicomorpha » Assassin Bugs (Reduviidae) » Kissing Bugs (Triatominae) » Bloodsucking Conenoses (Triatoma) » Triatoma gerstaeckeri

Species Triatoma gerstaeckeri

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Season · Life Cycle · Works Cited
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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 gerstaeckeri (Triatoma gerstaeckeri)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Triatoma gerstaeckeri (Stål)
Orig. Comb: Conorhinus gerstaeckeri Stål 1859
Size
23-28 mm
Identification
See species page (CDC 2010)
Range
se NM, w. TX, ne Mexico map(1)(2)
Season
May-Aug (BG data)
Life Cycle
Unlike many arthropod-borne infections, T. cruzi is not transmitted through the bite of the infected insect. Triatomines defecate while feeding, and the agent can enter the bloodstream when the host scratches the bite wound. However, T. gerstaeckeri will not walk completely onto a host, and generally does not defecate while feeding, reducing host exposure.
Works Cited
1.Chagas Disease in a Domestic Transmission Cycle in Southern Texas, USA
Beard et al. 2003. 2003. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 9(1): 103-105.
2.Catalog of the Heteroptera, or True Bugs of Canada and the Continental United States
Thomas J. Henry, Richard C. Froeschner. 1988. Brill Academic Publishers.
Contributed by Cotinis on 24 June, 2006 - 11:16am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 18 June, 2017 - 9:18am

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