World Health Organization , 2023. World Chagas Disease Day. Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/04/14/default-calendar/world-chagas-disease-day-2023-time-to-integrate-chagas-disease-into-primary-health-care. Accessed June 17, 2023.
World Health Organization , 2023. Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis). Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/chagas-disease-(american-trypanosomiasis). Accessed June 6, 2023.
Alevi KCC , Oliveira J , Rocha DS , Galvão C , 2021. Trends in taxonomy of Chagas disease vectors (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): from Linnaean to integrative taxonomy. Pathogens 10: 1627.
Oliveira Correia JPSO , Gil-Santana HR , Dale C , Galvão C , 2022. Triatoma guazu Lent and Wygodzinsky is a junior synonym of Triatoma williami Galvão, Souza and Lima. Insects 13: 591.
Gil-Santana HR , Chavez T , Pita S , Panzera F , Galvão C , 2022. Panstrongylus noireaui, a remarkable new species of Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) from Bolivia. ZooKeys 1104: 203–225.
Téllez-Rendón J , Esteban L , Rengifo-Correa L , Díaz-Albiter H , Huerta H , Dale C , 2023. Triatoma yelapensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Mexico, with a key of Triatoma species recorded in Mexico. Insects 14: 331.
Zhao Y , Fan M , Li H , Cai W , 2023. Review of kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) from China with descriptions of two new species. Insects 14: 450.
Justi SA , Russo CAM , Mallet JRDS , Obara MT , Galvão C , 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Triatomini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae). Paras Vect 7: 149.
Galvão C , Carcavallo R , Rocha DS , Jurberg J , 2003. A checklist of the current valid species of the subfamily Triatominae Jeannel, 1919 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) and their geographical distribution, with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa 202: 1–36.
Bittinelli IF et al., 2022. Do not judge a book by its cover: would Triatoma tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926) belong to Triatoma Laporte, 1832, or to Panstrongylus Berg, 1879, with misleading homoplasies? Parasit Vectors 15: 184.
Vivas RJ , García JE , Guhl F , Hernández C , Velásquez N , Ramírez JD , Carranza JC , Vallejo GA , 2021. Systematic review on the biology, ecology, genetic diversity and parasite transmission potential of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille 1811) in Latin America. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 116: e200528.
Peixoto SR , Rocha DS , Dale C , Galvão C , 2020. Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille, 1811) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): first record on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check List 16: 391–394.
Borsatto KC , Azeredo-Oliveira MTV , Alevi KCC , 2019. Identification Key for the Chagas Disease Vectors of Five Brazilian States, Based on Cytogenetic Data. Am J Trop Med Hyg 100: 303–305.
Pita S et al., 2022. High chromosomal mobility of rDNA clusters in holocentric chromosomes of Triatominae, vectors of Chagas disease (Hemiptera-Reduviidae). Med Vet Entomol 36: 66–80.
Panzera F , Pérez R , Panzera Y , Ferrandis I , Ferreiro MJ , Calleros L , 2010. Cytogenetics and genome evolution in the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). Cytogenet Genome Res 128: 77–87.
Galvão C , 2014. Vetores da doença de Chagas no Brasil. Curitiba, Brasil: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia.
Matos DF , Santos ABASL , Cirilo TM , Gomes DS , Almeida DHA , 2022. Spatial distribution of triatomines in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil: a cross-sectional descriptive study. Diversitas J 8: 389–400.
Lucena DT , 1961. Epidemiologia da doença de Chagas em Alagoas. III—a fauna triatomínea. Rev Bras Malariol Doencas Trop 8: 77–88.
Lucena DT , 1963. Epidemiologia da doença de Chagas em Alagoas. IV—Papel dos triatomíneos na transmissão domiciliar. Rev Bras Malariol Doencas Trop 15: 3–11.
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Panstrongylus geniculatus is the most widely distributed species of Panstrongylus in Brazil and merits attention from vector control programs due to its potential for domiciliation. Specimens infected with Trypanosoma cruzi have already been reported in both peridomiciliary and domiciliary environments. Building on these findings, we report, for the first time, the presence of P. geniculatus in the state of Alagoas and provide an updated dichotomous key (based on cytogenetic data) for species in Alagoas. Panstrongylus geniculatus has been identified in Boca da Mata, Joaquim Gomes, and Novo Lino. In light of the recent notification of Rhodnius domesticus and this record of P. geniculatus, we present an updated identification key enabling the differentiation of all species in Alagoas. Emphasis is placed on the importance of correctly identifying triatomine species because it is crucial for the development of effective control measures, thereby aiding in the mitigation of Chagas disease.
Current contact information: Jader Oliveira, Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, and Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciencia, Tecnologia e Inovação para Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Acre, Rio Branco, Brazil, E-mail: jdr.oliveira@hotmail.com. Carlos Fernando Rocha, Laboratório de Entomologia Médica, Unidade de Vigilância de Zoonoses de Maceió, Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Maceió, Jaraguá, Maceió, Brazil, E-mail: fernandobiologo@outlook.com. Jociel Klleyton Santos Santana and João Aristeu da Rosa, Universidade Estadual Paulista, “Júlio de Mesquita Filho,” Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Araraquara, Brazil, E-mails: jociel.santana@unesp.br and joao.aristeu@unesp.br. André Luiz Rodrigues Menezes, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho,” Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas, Rodovia Araraquara/Jaú, Araraquara, Brazil, and Instituto Federal de Rondônia, campus Porto Velho Calama, Porto Velho, Brazil, E-mail: alr.menezes@unesp.br. Cleber Galvão, Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, E-mail: clebergalvao@gmail.com. Kaio Cesar Chaboli Alevi, Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública, Departamento de Epidemiologia, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, and Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Pavilhão Rocha Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, E-mail: kaiochaboli@hotmail.com.
World Health Organization , 2023. World Chagas Disease Day. Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/events/detail/2023/04/14/default-calendar/world-chagas-disease-day-2023-time-to-integrate-chagas-disease-into-primary-health-care. Accessed June 17, 2023.
World Health Organization , 2023. Chagas disease (also known as American trypanosomiasis). Available at: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/chagas-disease-(american-trypanosomiasis). Accessed June 6, 2023.
Alevi KCC , Oliveira J , Rocha DS , Galvão C , 2021. Trends in taxonomy of Chagas disease vectors (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): from Linnaean to integrative taxonomy. Pathogens 10: 1627.
Oliveira Correia JPSO , Gil-Santana HR , Dale C , Galvão C , 2022. Triatoma guazu Lent and Wygodzinsky is a junior synonym of Triatoma williami Galvão, Souza and Lima. Insects 13: 591.
Gil-Santana HR , Chavez T , Pita S , Panzera F , Galvão C , 2022. Panstrongylus noireaui, a remarkable new species of Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) from Bolivia. ZooKeys 1104: 203–225.
Téllez-Rendón J , Esteban L , Rengifo-Correa L , Díaz-Albiter H , Huerta H , Dale C , 2023. Triatoma yelapensis sp. nov. (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) from Mexico, with a key of Triatoma species recorded in Mexico. Insects 14: 331.
Zhao Y , Fan M , Li H , Cai W , 2023. Review of kissing bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae) from China with descriptions of two new species. Insects 14: 450.
Justi SA , Russo CAM , Mallet JRDS , Obara MT , Galvão C , 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Triatomini (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae). Paras Vect 7: 149.
Galvão C , Carcavallo R , Rocha DS , Jurberg J , 2003. A checklist of the current valid species of the subfamily Triatominae Jeannel, 1919 (Hemiptera, Reduviidae) and their geographical distribution, with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes. Zootaxa 202: 1–36.
Bittinelli IF et al., 2022. Do not judge a book by its cover: would Triatoma tibiamaculata (Pinto, 1926) belong to Triatoma Laporte, 1832, or to Panstrongylus Berg, 1879, with misleading homoplasies? Parasit Vectors 15: 184.
Vivas RJ , García JE , Guhl F , Hernández C , Velásquez N , Ramírez JD , Carranza JC , Vallejo GA , 2021. Systematic review on the biology, ecology, genetic diversity and parasite transmission potential of Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille 1811) in Latin America. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 116: e200528.
Peixoto SR , Rocha DS , Dale C , Galvão C , 2020. Panstrongylus geniculatus (Latreille, 1811) (Hemiptera, Reduviidae, Triatominae): first record on Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Check List 16: 391–394.
Borsatto KC , Azeredo-Oliveira MTV , Alevi KCC , 2019. Identification Key for the Chagas Disease Vectors of Five Brazilian States, Based on Cytogenetic Data. Am J Trop Med Hyg 100: 303–305.
Pita S et al., 2022. High chromosomal mobility of rDNA clusters in holocentric chromosomes of Triatominae, vectors of Chagas disease (Hemiptera-Reduviidae). Med Vet Entomol 36: 66–80.
Panzera F , Pérez R , Panzera Y , Ferrandis I , Ferreiro MJ , Calleros L , 2010. Cytogenetics and genome evolution in the subfamily Triatominae (Hemiptera, Reduviidae). Cytogenet Genome Res 128: 77–87.
Galvão C , 2014. Vetores da doença de Chagas no Brasil. Curitiba, Brasil: Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia.
Matos DF , Santos ABASL , Cirilo TM , Gomes DS , Almeida DHA , 2022. Spatial distribution of triatomines in the municipality of Santana do Ipanema, Alagoas, Brazil: a cross-sectional descriptive study. Diversitas J 8: 389–400.
Lucena DT , 1961. Epidemiologia da doença de Chagas em Alagoas. III—a fauna triatomínea. Rev Bras Malariol Doencas Trop 8: 77–88.
Lucena DT , 1963. Epidemiologia da doença de Chagas em Alagoas. IV—Papel dos triatomíneos na transmissão domiciliar. Rev Bras Malariol Doencas Trop 15: 3–11.
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