Talk:Triatominae

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What are the main natural enemies of the Triatominae? Is it subject to predation by other insects, birds or animals?
 * -Tachinidae ? sound interesting for that.
 * -parasitic wasps Ichneumonidae, Chalcidoidea too ?
 * spiders ?
 * scelionid wasps (Telonemus farai (Scelionidae)?), http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=154069


 * 1998. Conferencista en la ponencia respecto a la Ecología del Parasitoide Ooencyrtus sp. (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) como controlador biológico de Triatominos en condiciones naturales. Ministerio de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social. Proyecto de Investigación de Enfermedades Tropicales en Guatemala. Financiado por la Agencia de Cooperación Técnica por el Gobierno de Japón (JICA).
 * 2000. Presentación de cartel científico: ?Telenomus farai y Ooencyrtus venatorius, dos parasitoides de huevos de Triatoma dimidiata en condiciones naturales? XVth International Congress for Tropical Medicine & Malaria. Cartagena, Colombia. August 20 ? 25, 2000.

Image
Not long ago, I was strolling through a bug-infested forest near Dongducheon, South Korea (I mean that in a good way), and I came across this insect:



Before I link this image to any type of article, I would like to know if this mystery insect is of the Triatominae species. It immediately seems to me that it is part of this species, but I am not too sure. I am no expert of insects, so I am wondering if someone more knowledgeable than me can demistify this critter on mere observation. Thanks!--Merkurix 15:34, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup tag
Needs wikification, or cleanup of notes or something, particularly at the bottom. Also seems unbalanced in terms of content. Is the article about the insect or about the diseases it transmits and the demographics of the people who are infected? Anchoress 22:29, 20 August 2006 (UTC) fvghcu jigfy hbdn vjbdyuvhdsbysgvgfbhvdhvdghbhcb cxmvbkjfnvjcnvb cbxvfbrhvgdgfuhihgvfioisbdhbchfbh4j2fuehbfrbfvhfegvybvhfnvhfbjbejnfhnfhsdbfhnbebcn   vf nvn fj bjd kijfhnbvjfuvgufshbvdbvjhdf°dccdcdcdcd≈vftbhnyjh  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.227.253.13 (talk) 20:23, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Redirect
"Assassin bug" redirects here. However, the term designates not only the Triatominae, but also many other Reduviidae. To be sure of this I checked in several books (Steven A. Marshall's "Insects" (2006), and Triplehorn and Johnson's "Borror and Delong's introduction to the study of insects" (2005)), and they support this. Also, a simple google search for "assassin bug" + Reduviidae gives 13,200 results, whereas "assassin bug" + Triatominae gives only 625 results. I'm therefore going to change the redirect to the Reduviidae article. Iron C hris |  (talk) 05:24, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

conservation status?
Why does this have a conservation status? It's a disease vector; I get the impression that humanity would be better off without it. --69.107.80.205 (talk) 06:32, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

The Kissing Bug by Daniel Scott Buck
I don't know what Wikipedia editors find important enough to include, but Portland author Daniel Scott Buck wrote a "children's book" with personified kissing bugs as the main characters. http://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Bug-Daniel-Scott-Buck/dp/1933929677 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.107.9 (talk) 22:58, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Also don't forget their bite (suck)when handled incorrectly! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.229.228.22 (talk) 15:36, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

Article issues
There are fourteen entries in the "Further reading" section and thirteen in the "External links" so there really needs to be a lot of trimming. Otr500 (talk) 07:06, 14 January 2018 (UTC)

Further reading section
There are still 14 entries in this section and that is an over-abundance. Apparently, there is no one following the article so I will randomly remove about 10 or eleven of them unless someone has a preference. Otr500 (talk) 02:16, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * == Etymology of popular names ==

I visited the page because I had never before heard the term "kissing bug", but failed to find any information on why the insect is called that. I added what I found, but it struck me that all the insect's popular names need similar explanation, possibly in a new section on etymology.Robert P. O&#39;Shea (talk) 21:39, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a good idea. Otr500 (talk) 02:20, 21 February 2018 (UTC)


 * I didn't dig into the edit history but this is a Wiktionary entry that I don't think is acceptable as a reference. Otr500 (talk) 14:43, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * There is some info here. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 07:41, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

size of bug
The size of this bug is not mentioned anywhere in the article. Could the info be added? It would help for identification purposes. Thanks. 173.228.123.166 (talk) 07:43, 24 August 2018 (UTC)

Classification
In trying to track down the most recent classification of species in Triatoma, it appears that the most recent checklist that shows all species names (Galvão et al., 2003) has been superceded in some respects by a later publication (Schofield & Galvão, 2009), which eliminated a few of the genera to which some former Triatoma had been removed. Unless I can find some more recent publications on classification in the next day or so, it is probably better to put these species back into Triatoma, despite the absence of an explicit updated checklist. Fortunately, only one of these former genera (Mepraia) has an existing article that will need to be wiped clean and converted into a redirect, and only contains three redlinked taxon names. Dyanega (talk) 23:40, 26 April 2019 (UTC)