Mepraia
Mepraia spinolai in central Chile
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Triatominae
Tribe: Triatomini
Genus: Mepraia
Mazza, Gajardo & Jörg, 1940
Species

See text.

Mepraia is a genus in the subfamily Triatominae, endemic in Chile, and vectors of Chagas disease.

Species[1]

  • Mepraia eratyrusiformis (Del Ponte, 1929)[2]
  • Mepraia gajardoi Frías, Henry & González, 1998
  • Mepraia parapatrica Frías, 2010
  • Mepraia spinolai (Porter, 1934)

References

  1. ↑ Faúndez, E. I. & Carvajal, M. A. (2012). "Notas sobre Mepraia gajardoi Frías, Henry & González, 1998 (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae)". Boletín de la Sociedad Entomológica Aragonesa. 50: 495–497. ISSN 1134-6094.
  2. ↑ Hypsa, V., Tietz, D.F., Zrzavy, J., Rego, R.O.M., Galvao, C., Jurberg, J., 2002. Phylogeny and biogeography of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae): molecular evidence of a new world origin of the Asiatic clade. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 23, 447-457
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