Dipetalogaster
| Dipetalogaster | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Suborder: | Heteroptera |
| Infraorder: | Cimicomorpha |
| Family: | Reduviidae |
| Subfamily: | Triatominae |
| Genus: | Dipetalogaster Usinger, 1939 |
| Species: | D. maxima |
| Binomial name | |
| Dipetalogaster maxima Uhler, 1894 | |
Dipetalogaster, a genus of Triatominae, the kissing bugs, has only a single species, Dipetalogaster maxima, which is found in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The blood-sucking Dipetalogaster live in crevices in the rocks and feed on lizards.[1]
Dipetalogaster is routinely infected by the Chagas disease parasite Trypanosoma cruzi.[1][2][3]
Notes
- 1 2 Ryckman, Raymond E., and Ryckman, Albert E. (1967). "Epizootiology of Trypanosoma cruzi in Southwestern North America, Part X: The Biosystematics of Dipetalogaster maxzmus in Mexico (Hemiptera: Reduviidae)(Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomidae)". Journal of Medical Entomology 4 (2): 180–188. PMID 4963987.
- ↑ Garcia, Elio S., and Dvorak, James A. (1982). "Growth and development of two Trypanosoma cruzi clones in the arthropod Dipetalogaster maximus". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 31 (2): 259–262. PMID 7041664.
- ↑ Jiménez, María-Luisa; Llinas, Jorge and Palacios, Carlos (2003). "Infection rates in Dipetalogaster maximus (Reduviidae: Triatominae) by Trypanosoma cruzi in the Cape Region, Baja California Sur, México". Journal of Medical Entomology 40 (1): 18–21. doi:10.1603/0022-2585-40.1.18. PMID 12597648.
References
- Uhler, Philip Reese (1894). "Observations upon the heteropterous hemiptera of Lower California: with descriptions of new species". Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, series 2 IV: 223–295.
- Maldonado Capriles Jenaro (1990). "Dipetalogaster maximus (Uhler 1894)". Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). Caribbean Journal of Science, Special edition. Mayagüez, Puerto Rico: University of Puerto Rico. pp. 549–550.
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