Triatoma carrioni

Triatoma carrioni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Family:	Reduviidae
Genus:	Triatoma
Species:	T. carrioni
Binomial name
Triatoma carrioni Larrousse, 1926

Triatoma carrioni is a blood-sucking bug and probably vector of the flagellate protozoan that causes Chaga's disease. It was discovered by F. Larrousse in 1926.

Type: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Paratype M: FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro.

Type locality: Loja Province, Ecuador.

Distribution: South Ecuador, North Peru.

Biology: , rodent nests and opossum lodges; also , and occasionally in houses.

Note: Spanish name:

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