Triatomine

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A bug of the large, cosmopolitan family of predatory insects in the suborder Heteroptera, commonly involved in the transmission of Chagas disease in South America

Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease. Photo courtsey by CDC and Hardin MD, University of Iowa http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hARDIN/MD/cdc/chagas6.html