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

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Description: Triatoma infestans or the “Kissing Bug”, “Assassin Bug”, or “Cone-Nose Bug”, is a vector for Chagas' Disease.