Rhodnius amazonicus Almeida, Santos & Sposina, 1973

Galvão, Cleber, Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Oliveira, Jader de, 2024, The taxonomic catalog of the Brazilian fauna: biodiversity and geographical distribution of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Brazil, Zoologia (e 24006) 41, pp. 1-28 : 5

Rhodnius amazonicus Almeida, Santos & Sposina, 1973

Distribution. Amazonas, Amapá, Pará.

Public health importance. In Amapá, this species was found invading a domiciliar environment in a rural area. However, no natural infection has been reported so far ( Galeno et al. 2023).

Remarks. This is a sylvatic and very rare species, described based on a female specimen and synonymized by Lent and Wygodzinsky (1979) with R. pictipes . After discovery of some specimens of this genus from French Guiana and the examination of the female holotype of R. amazonicus, Bérenger and Pluot-Sigwalt (2002) revalidated this species. A comparative morphological study between. R. pictipes , R. stali and a pair of R. amazonicus captured in Breves, PA, Brazil was conducted by Rosa et al. (2017), which also contributed to the phenotypic distinction between these two species.