identifier	taxonID	type	CVterm	format	language	title	description	additionalInformationURL	UsageTerms	rights	Owner	contributor	creator	bibliographicCitation
2138879EFFB6FFE1FE6D7A21ADD2F938.text	2138879EFFB6FFE1FE6D7A21ADD2F938.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille 1811)	<div><p>Triatoma dimidiata (Latreille, 1811)</p><p>(Fig. 1A)</p><p>Diagnosis. Male. Pronotum uniformly dark, humeral angles rounded, corium preponderantly yellow with apical and central dark spot, connexivial segments dorsally and ventrally with yellow or orange yellow spot occupying more than posterior third of each segment (Lent and Wigodzinsky 1979).</p><p>Confirmation records. Mexico, Nuevo León, Parque Natural La Estanzuela, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-100.270836&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.548695" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -100.270836/lat 25.548695)">Monterrey</a>; 25°32’55.3’’ N, 100°16’15.0’’ W, 709 m, 19.VIII.2022; Edilia López, 1 male, collected alive while tangled in the web of a pholcid spider (LESPNL-CAIM: HEM/00003) .</p><p>New records. Mexico, Tamaulipas, Reserva de la Biosfera “El Cielo”, Gómez FarÍas; 23°03’56.6’’ N, 99°10’05.5’’ W, 349 m, 15.X.2021, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-99.16819&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=23.065722" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -99.16819/lat 23.065722)">Manuel de Luna</a> and Roberto GarcÍa Barrios, 3 males, collected at night attracted to light (FCF-HEMIP025; FCF-HEMIP030; FCF-HEMIP083) .</p><p>Notes. These specimens represent the first record for this species for the state of Nuevo León with collected specimens, as previous records from Tamaulipas were made using only citizen science observations (RodrÍguez-Rojas et al. 2025). These are the northernmost records for the species. The intestinal contents of the single specimen of T. dimidiata from Monterrey (LESPNL-CAIM:HEM/00003) tested positive for T. cruzi (Fig. 3).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2138879EFFB6FFE1FE6D7A21ADD2F938	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	León-Espinosa, Gisela Aramiriam;González-Reyes, Mario Octavio;Huerta, Herón;de Luna, Manuel	León-Espinosa, Gisela Aramiriam, González-Reyes, Mario Octavio, Huerta, Herón, de Luna, Manuel (2025): Confirmation of presence and new record of two species of kissing bugs of the genus Triatoma Laporte, 1832 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) for northeastern Mexico. Revista Chilena de Entomología 51 (4): 789-797, DOI: 10.35249/rche.51.4.25.21, URL: https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.51.4.25.21
2138879EFFB7FFE5FE1B7E4BAC02FE09.text	2138879EFFB7FFE5FE1B7E4BAC02FE09.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Triatoma pallidipennis (Stal 1872)	<div><p>Triatoma pallidipennis (Stål, 1872)</p><p>(Fig. 1B)</p><p>Diagnosis. Female. First antennal segment extending beyond level of apex of clypeus. Corium largely yellowish white, narrowly orange at base and black at apex and with numerous short decumbent or adpressed setae. Basal half of clavus is dark, the apical half is yellowish white. Hemelytra of females not quite attaining posterior margin of urotergite VI (Rengifo-Correa et al. 2021).</p><p>Confirmation records. Mexico, Nuevo León, BahÍa Escondida, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=-100.12342&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=25.427582" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long -100.12342/lat 25.427582)">Santiago</a>; 25°25’39.3’’ N, 100°07’24.3’’ W, 448 m, 3.XI.2019; Roberto GarcÍa Barrios, 1 female, collected at daytime beneath rubble (FCF-HEMIP051) .</p><p>Notes. This record is the first report of the species for the state of Nuevo León with collected specimens and is the northernmost distribution in the country. There is an additional observation of this species in the platform iNaturalist (2025) for the municipality of Vallecillo in Nuevo León, mentioned in RodrÍguez-Rojas et al. (2025); however, attempts at corroborating this were unsuccessful.</p><p>Triatoma dimidiata is considered one of the most important vectors in the transmission of T. cruzi in northern Latin America and is the sixth most important vector of the disease in southern Mexico in the states Campeche, Chiapas, Colima, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, San Luis PotosÍ, Tabasco, Veracruz, and Yucatán (Dorn et al. 2017; Rengifo-Correa et al. 2021). Due to being very widespread, T. dimidiata exhibits a large morphological diversity, which has led to taxonomic problems (Dorn et al. 2007, 2009; Panzera et al. 2006), therefore, the dimidiata species-complex was created to contain four taxa: T. dimidiata (Yuc), T. dimidiata (Gulf), T. dimidiata (Pacific) and Triatoma hegneri Mazzotti, 1940 (Ibarra-Cerdeña et al. 2009).</p><p>Triatoma pallidipennis is also considered one of the most important vectors of Chagas disease in the country, with an 88% infection rate of T. cruzi, one of the highest in Mexico (Cortés-Jiménez et al. 1996; Cruz and Arellano 2022). It is found in the states of Colima, Estado de México, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Morelos, Nayarit, Puebla, Querétaro, Veracruz and Zacatecas (Sandoval-Ruiz et al. 2012).</p><p>Most of the species-complexes of Triatoma exhibit a fast adaptation to domestic habitats, influenced by the accelerated growth of urban areas (Ibarra-Cerdeña et al. 2009; Justi et al. 2018; Gorla and Noireau 2017). The constant moving of the Mexican and Central American human populations increases not only the distribution of the vector but also the risk of the infection reaching new areas, while also modifying the preference of the vectors (Justi et al. 2018; Molina-Garza et al. 2007; Ramsey et al. 2003). We consider that T. dimidiata to be native to the state of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, given its widespread presence in states of the Gulf versant. On the other hand, more research needs to be done regarding the distribution of T. pallidipennis in the region, since this species’ distribution seems to be found in western Mexico, and thus the ones from Nuevo Leon could reflect recent introductions.</p><p>Knowing the identity and distribution of kissing bugs in each region is a key component for the development of control and surveillance strategies (Ramsey and Schofield 2003; Abad-Franch et al. 2005; de Paiva et al. 2022). Added to that is the need for the implementation of public health programs that could bring attention to Chagas disease and its vectors (Molina-Garza et al. 2007; Ramsey et al. 2003). All of this is of special concern in an understudied area such as northeastern Mexico (MartÍnez-Tovar et al. 2013).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/2138879EFFB7FFE5FE1B7E4BAC02FE09	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	León-Espinosa, Gisela Aramiriam;González-Reyes, Mario Octavio;Huerta, Herón;de Luna, Manuel	León-Espinosa, Gisela Aramiriam, González-Reyes, Mario Octavio, Huerta, Herón, de Luna, Manuel (2025): Confirmation of presence and new record of two species of kissing bugs of the genus Triatoma Laporte, 1832 (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) for northeastern Mexico. Revista Chilena de Entomología 51 (4): 789-797, DOI: 10.35249/rche.51.4.25.21, URL: https://doi.org/10.35249/rche.51.4.25.21
