| dc.creator | Garrido, Rubén | |
| dc.creator | Campos-Soto, Ricardo | |
| dc.creator | Quiroga, Nicol | |
| dc.creator | Botto-Mahan, Carezza | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-18T14:56:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-18T14:56:21Z | |
| dc.date | 2021 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-02T20:31:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-02T20:31:02Z | |
| dc.identifier | http://repositorio.ucm.cl/handle/ucm/4685 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/9274924 | |
| dc.description | 1. Blood-feeding bugs in the Triatominae are the vectors of Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas disease. Mepraia is a sylvatic genus endemic to Chile that transmits T. cruzi in the wild cycle.
2. Bloodmeal-stealing (or ‘cleptohaematophagy’) is the stealing of a bloodmeal from one bug's gut by another, usually conspecific bug. Bloodmeal-stealing can result in horizontal transmission of T. cruzi between triatomines; so far, it has been reported only in laboratory-reared bugs.
3. We performed short laboratory experiments to test whether bloodmeal-stealing occurs between wild-caught Mepraia spinolai nymphs. Successful bloodmeal-stealing was observed in one out of 17 trials (2/102 bugs). Even though bloodmeal-stealing was not frequent in wild-caught M. spinolai, this behaviour might contribute to explaining the maintenance of wild T. cruzi cycles. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.rights | Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 Chile | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ | |
| dc.source | Ecological Entomology, 46(3), 681-683 | |
| dc.subject | Chile | |
| dc.subject | Cleptohaematophagy | |
| dc.subject | Mepraia | |
| dc.subject | Triatomine behavior | |
| dc.subject | Trypanosoma cruzi | |
| dc.title | Bloodmeal-stealing in wild-caught Mepraia spinolai (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a sylvatic vector of Trypanosoma cruzi | |
| dc.type | Article | |
