Triatoma infestans

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Triatoma infestans, commonly called winchuka or vinchuca in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, barbeiro in Brazil, chipo in Venezuela and also known as "kissing bug" or "barber bug" in English, is a blood-sucking bug (like virtually all the members of its subfamily Triatominae) and the most important vector of Trypanosoma cruzi which can lead to Chagas disease.

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Image: Fuente/Source: Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemoepidemias. Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (2023). Catálogo de triatominos argentinos. 1era edición. Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Administración Nacional de Laboratorios e Institutos de Salud (ANLIS) Dr. C. Malbrán. CeNDIE-Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación en Endemoepidemias. ISBN 978-987-48850-1-2 Diseño e ilustraciones, Ruth Paola Oño. Autores: GeoVin (Marti, Gerardo A.; Ceccarelli, Soledad; Balsalobre, Agustín; Cochero, Joaquín; Dibene, Bárbara y Vicente, María Eugenia). CeNDIE (Manteca Acosta, Mariana; Carbajal de la Fuente, Ana Laura; Lobbia, Patricia A.; Remón, Carolina), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.