Triatomine

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

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