The Genus Panstrongylus Berg, 1879 belongs to the subfamily Triatominae

Triatominae

The members of Triatominae , a subfamily of Reduviidae, are also known as conenose bugs, kissing bugs, assassin bugs or triatomines. Most of the 130 or more species of this subfamily are haematophagous, i.e. feed on vertebrate blood; a very few species feed on other invertebrates...

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Species

Panstrongylus chinai (Del Ponte, 1929) (Tc)

Panstrongylus diasi Pinto & Lent, 1946

Panstrongylus geniculatus

Panstrongylus geniculatus

Panstrogylus geniculatus is a blood-sucking sylvatic insect noted as a putative vector of minor importance in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi to humans; a parasite, which causes Chagas disease...

(Latreille 1811) (Tc)

Panstrongylus guentheri Berg, 1879 (Tc)

Panstrongylus howardi (Neiva, 1911) (Tc)

Panstrongylus humeralis (Usinger, 1939) (Tc)

Panstrongylus lenti Galvão & Palma, 1968

Panstrongylus lignarius (Walker, 1873) (Tc)

Panstrongylus lutzi (Neiva & Pinto, 1923b) (Tc)

Panstrongylus megistus (Burmeister, 1835) (Tc)

Panstrongylus mitarakaensis (Bérenger & Blanchet, 2007)

Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus (Champion, 1899) (Tc)

Panstrongylus tupynambai Lent, 1942 (Tc)

(Tc) means associated with Trypanosoma cruzi

Trypanosoma cruzi

Trypanosoma cruzi is a species of parasitic euglenoid trypanosomes. This species causes the trypanosomiasis diseases in humans and animals in America...