Autores/as:  Soledad Ceccarelli, María Eugenia Vicente, Quin Liu,  Xiao-Nong Zhou, Di Wo, Agustín Balsalobre, Emiliano Bruno, Emilia Barboza, Romina Valente, Gerardo Marti

Detalles de la publicación:
Número de páginas: 11
Nombre del medio de comunicación: Gigabyte 
Fecha de publicación: 2025
Idioma: inglés

Resumen:

Chagas disease is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, which is transmitted to mammals, including
humans, mainly by insects of the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae). Also known
as “kissing bugs”, the subfamily includes 159 species in 18 genera and five tribes. Although most
species are in the Americas, here we present the first compilation of non-American triatomine
occurrences. The data (396 records) corresponds to 16 species of the genera Linschosteus and
Triatoma from Africa, Asia, and Oceania collected between 1926 and 2022, and include verified
records with geographic coordinates, collection dates, and ecological information. The key
novelties of our dataset regard (i) temporal and geographical updates of non-American species,
(ii) records of T. rubrofasciata hundreds of kilometers inland, and (iii) geographical records of
the last two described Triatoma species (T. atrata and T. picta). Our resource supports global
surveillance, ecological modeling, and risk assessment by providing evidence of potential vectors
for Chagas disease control outside the Americas.