Mepraia
Mepraia | |
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Mepraia spinolai in central Chile | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hemiptera |
Family: | Reduviidae |
Subfamily: | Triatominae |
Tribe: | |
Genus: | Mepraia Mazza, Gajardo & Jörg, 1940 |
Species | |
See text. |
Mepraia is a genus in the subfamily Triatominae, endemic in Chile, and vectors of Chagas disease.
Species[1][]
- (Del Ponte, 1929)[2]
- Frías, Henry & González, 1998
- Frías, 2010
- (Porter, 1934)
References[]
- ^ Faúndez, E. I. & 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.
- ^ Hypsa, V., Tietz, D.F., Zrzavy, J., Rego, R.O.M., Galvao, C., Jurberg, J., 2002. Phylogeny and biogeography of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): molecular evidence of a new world origin of the Asiatic clade. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 23, 447-457
Categories:
- Reduviidae
- Arthropods of Chile