COLUMBIDAE

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 : 18

COLUMBIDAE

Columba livia [ livia Gmelin, 1789 ]

HEMIPTERA

Reduviidae : Triatominae

Triatoma infestans Klug in Meigen, 1834

San Juan: Fig. 5 ; San Juan city ( Vallvé et al. 1995); San Juan city: Civic Center, 3 females in two nests, 1 n II, 2 n III, 8 n IV, and 14 n V in five nests; Intertorre I–II, 1 male, 1 female in one nest with one egg and one chick; Southern Zone, 1 male, 3 n I, 1 n II, 8 n III, 3 n IV, and 2 n V in one nest with two chicks ( Vallvé 1997); San Juan city ( López Pinos et al. 2005).

Triatoma sordida sordida (Stal, 1859)

Corrientes: Corrientes city, Parque Mitre, 6 eggs, 45 n I, 110 n II, 226 n III, 303 n IV, 1103 n V, 11 m, 12 f in 400 nests ( Bar et al. 1993a); Corrientes city, Parque Mitre ( Oscherov et al. 1998); Fig. 7 .

Figures

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.

FIGURE 7. Triatoma sordida: south-western area, Triatoma sordida garciabesi; north-western area, Triatoma sordida sordida; black circles, birds´nests; black square, Columba livia.