Article
Systematics and biogeography of Rhodniini (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) based on 16S mitochondrial rDNA sequences
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PAULA, Alexandre Silva de; DIOTAIUTI, Liléia Gonçalves; GALVÂO, Cleber. Systematics and biogeography of Rhodniini (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) based on 16S mitochondrial rDNA sequences. Journal of Biogeography, v. 34, p. 699-712, 2007.
0305-0270
10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01628.x
1365-2699
Autor
Paula, Alexandre Silva de
Diotaiuti, Liléia Gonçalves
Galvão, Cleber
Resumen
The tribe Rhodniini is one of six comprising the subfamily Triatominae (Heteroptera: Reduviidae), notorious as blood-sucking household pests and vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi throughout Latin America. The human and economic cost of this disease in the American tropics is considerable, and these bugs are unquestionably of great importance to man. Studies of the evolution, phylogeny, biogeography, ecology, physiology and behaviour of the Rhodniini are needed to help improve existing Chagas’ disease control programmes. The objective of the study reported here was to propose biogeographical hypotheses to explain the modern geographical distribution of the species of Rhodniini.