Triatoma Laporte

Sandoval-Ruiz, César Antonio, Cervantesperedo, Luis, Mendoza-Palmero, Fredy Severo & Ibáñez-Bernal, Sergio, 2012, The Triatominae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Reduviidae) of Veracruz, Mexico: geographic distribution, taxonomic redescriptions, and a key, Zootaxa 3487, pp. 1-23 : 9

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282406
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6176961
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scientific name	Triatoma Laporte
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Genus Triatoma Laporte View in CoL

Triatoma Laporte 1832 , p. 11; 1833, p. 77; Type species: Cimex rubrofasciatus DeGeer 1773 .

Comments. There are 80 known species of Triatoma widely distributed in the Americas from the middle of the United States of America to Argentina. Its members occupy a broad variety of ecotopes. In Mexico 20 species have been recorded ( Galvão et al. 2003), and the following species are reported in Veracruz.