Mepraia

Mepraia
Mepraia spinolai in central Chile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Triatominae
Genus: Mepraia
Species

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Mepraia is a genus in the subfamily Triatominae, endemic of Chile, and vector of Chagas disease. Currently this genus contains 3 species Mepraia spinolai (Porter, 1933), Mepraia gajardoi (Frías, Henry & González, 1998) and Mepraia parapatrica (Frías, 2010).[1]

References

  1. ↑ Faúndez, E. I. and Carvajal, M. A. (2012). "Notas sobre Mepraia gajardoi Frías, Henry & González, 1998 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)". Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa 50: 495–497. ISSN 1134-6094.
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