Triatoma carrioni

T. carrioni Larrousse, 1926

Causitive agent of Chaga's disease

Type: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Paratype: M: FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro.

Type locality: Loja , Ecuador.

Distribution: South Ecuador, North Peru.

Biology: silvatic , rodent nests and opossum lodges; also peridomestic , and occasionally in houses.

Note: spanish name: chinche de caballo