''Triatoma juazeirensis'' is an

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, a

Chagas disease Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is a tropical parasitic disease caused by ''Trypanosoma cruzi''. It is spread mostly by insects in the subfamily ''Triatominae'', known as "kissing bugs". The symptoms change over the cou ...

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which occurs in the State of

Bahia Bahia ( , , ; meaning "bay") is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (sta ...

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. It is found in natural and artificial environments infesting mainly the peridomiciliary areas but it may also colonize the intradomicile. ''T. juazeirensis'' can be distinguished from the other members of the brasiliensis complex by its entire dark

pronotum The prothorax is the foremost of the three segments in the thorax of an insect, and bears the first pair of legs. Its principal sclerites (exoskeletal plates) are the pronotum (dorsal), the prosternum (ventral), and the propleuron (lateral) on ea ...

and legs.

References

* Costa J., Felix M. (2007).''Triatoma juazeirensis'' sp. nov. from the state of Bahia, Northeastern Brazil (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae). ''Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 102''(1): 87-90. * Lent H., Wygodzinsky P. (1979). Revision of the Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) and their significance as vectors of Chagas' disease. ''Bull Am Mus Nat Hist 163'': 125-520. Reduviidae Insect vectors of human pathogens Invertebrates of Brazil Insects described in 2007 {{Heteroptera-stub