PASSERIDAE

Turienzo, Paola & Iorio, Osvaldo Di, 2007, Insects found in birds’ nests from Argentina. Part I: a bibliographical review, with taxonomical corrections, comments and a hypothetical mechanism of transmission of cimicid bugs, Zootaxa 1561, pp. 1-52 : 33-34

PASSERIDAE

Passer domesticus (L., 1758)

HEMIPTERA Cimicidae

Caminicimex furnarii ( Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928)

= Cimex passerinus Cordero & Vogelsang, 1928 : fide Usinger 1966 [syn.].

( Wygodzinsky 1959b); ( Aramburú & Carpintero 2006).

Santiago del Estero: ( Romaña & Abalos 1947); See Table 1; Fig. 1 ( Ronderos 1961).

URUGUAY, Dto. Montevideo: Montevideo [Type-locality], II- 1928, 1 m ( Cordero & Vogelsang 1928).

Reduviidae : Triatominae

Triatoma infestans Klug in Meigen, 1834

La Rioja: La Rioja city, several nests on the floor of a house, 14 nymphs, 10 adults ( Soler 1967); Fig. 5 .

Note: Cordero & Vogelsang (1928) described Cimex passerinus found once in nests of Passer domesticus . Usinger (1966) considered that the short description and the presented illustration did not provide enough distinctive characters to identify the species, and considered the name C. passerinus [type specimens very probably loosed] as a synonym of C. furnarii . Later, C. passerinus was also found in Argentina in a nest of Passer domesticus (Table 1).

Figures

FIGURE 1. Occurrences of hematophagous insects in birds´nests from Argentina. Phytogeographical provinces of Argentina: broad horizontal stripes, Chacoan Province; narrow horizontal stripes: a, Austro-brazilian transition forest; b, Paranaensic Province; c, Paranaensic Province (Gallery Forest) (according to Prado 1993); diagonal stripes, Monte Province (according to Morello 1958); vertical stripes, Espinal Province (according to Lewis & Collantes 1973). Caminicimex furnarii: black circles, Furnarius rufus; black star, Passer domesticus.

FIGURE 5. Triatoma infestans: black circles, birds´nests; empty circles, Furnariidae (“ colgadito ” + “ Dendrocolaptidae ” + “ Furnariidae ”); black squares, black triangle, Pseudoseisura lophotes.; half black circles, Furnarius rufus; white star, Passer domesticus; black star, Amazona aestiva; black oval, Strix sp.; snow crystal, Columba livia.