Key to species of the genus Rhodnius (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatomine)

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Published: Dec 31, 1986
Issue: Vol. 17 No. 4 (1986)
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  Pablo Barreto Profesor Titular (r), Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
Abstract

Members of the genus Rhodnius are important vectors of Chaga's disease and of Trypanosoma rangeli, the second trypanosome of man in the Americas. Some general considerations on Colombian triatomines are made, and a key to all of the known species of Rhodnius is given.

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Pablo Barreto, Profesor Titular (r), Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Profesor Titular (r), Departamento de Microbiología, Facultad de Salud, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia

Investigador, Centro Internacional de Investigaciones Médicas, CIDEIM, Universidad de Tulane-COLCIENCIAS, Cali, Colombia

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Pablo Barreto. (1986). Key to species of the genus Rhodnius (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatomine). Colombia Medica, 17(4), 200–202. https://doi.org/10.25100/cm.v17i4.6130
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