Panstrongylusnoireaui, a remarkable new species of Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) from Bolivia

Hélcio R Gil-Santana; Tamara Chavez; Sebastián Pita; Francisco Panzera; Cleber Galvão

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1104.81879

Panstrongylusnoireaui, a remarkable new species of Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) from Bolivia

Zookeys. 2022 Jun 14:1104:203-225. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1104.81879. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Hélcio R Gil-Santana¹, Tamara Chavez², Sebastián Pita³, Francisco Panzera³, Cleber Galvão¹

Affiliations

¹ Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
² Instituto Nacional de Laboratorios de Salud, Laboratorio de Entomología Médica, La Paz, Bolivia.
³ Universidad de la República, Facultad de Ciencias, Sección Genética Evolutiva, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Abstract

Panstrongylusnoireaui sp. nov. from Bolivia is described based on male and female specimens. Although morphologically almost indistinguishable from Panstrongylusrufotuberculatus (Champion, 1899), the new species shows remarkable chromosome and molecular features, which are very distinctive among all others Panstrongylus species. The new species is also separated by some characteristics of the processes of the endosoma of the male genitalia. An updated key for species of Panstrongylus is provided.

Keywords: Chagas disease vectors; genitalia; kissing bug; taxonomy.

Hélcio R. Gil-Santana, Tamara Chavez, Sebastián Pita, Francisco Panzera, Cleber Galvão.