First report of Rhodnius stali (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in the State of Acre and in the Brazilian Amazon

Retrospective study of the epidemiological overview of the transmission of Chagas disease in the State of Acre, South-Western Amazonia, from 2009 to 2016

“…Several studies show that most outbreaks of acute Chagas disease are associated with açaí [36][37][38][39] , which is the main food responsible for the increase in the number of cases of Chagas disease in the North region in recent years, whether due to fruit or pulp contamination by means of waste from the infected triatomines in the endemic areas 40 , which have already been registered in the state with the occurrence of the following species: Rhodnius robustus 29 , Rhodnius pictipes 29 , Rhodnius montenegrensis 41 , Rhodnius stali 16 , Rhodnius neglectus 42 , Eratyrus mucronatus 13 , Panstrongylus geniculatus 12 , Panstrongylus megistus 43 and Triatoma sordida 44 .…”

“…In the Brazilian Amazon region, an increasing number of cases of acute and chronic CD have become evident in recent years, showing that CD is endemic throughout the Amazon region [7][8][9][10] , with a great variety of vectors [11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] and wild reservoirs [19][20][21][22] , providing a greater circulation of the etiological agent of the disease [7][8][9][10] .…”

First report of Panstrongylus megistus (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae) in the State of Acre and Rondônia, Amazon, Brazil

“…In the Amazon, there are 31 recognized triatomine species grouped into nine genera, and in the Brazilian Amazon, there are at least 22 wild triatomine species belonging to eight described genera, more than 10 related of which are to Trypanosoma cruzi infection (Souza et al, 2016;Meneguetti et al, 2016).…”

First report of Panstrongylus lignarius , Walker, 1873 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae), in the State of Rondônia, Brazil

“…Triatomines are hematophagous insects belonging to the family Reduviidae and subfamily Triatominae 1 . They are epidemiologically important because they transmit the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of American trypanosomiasis, also known as Chagas disease 2,3 .…”

“…In the Brazilian Amazon, at least 20 species of sylvatic triatomines belonging to eight genera have been identified, of which more than 10 are infected with trypanosomatids 1,5,6 . In the State of Rondonia, there have been reports of six triatomine species belonging to three genera, namely, Rhodnius montenegrensis 7 , Rhodnius robustus, Rhodnius pictipes, Rhodnius milesi, Panstrongylus geniculatus 2,8 , and Eratyrus mucronatus 6 .…”