Triatoma melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941

Galvão, Cleber, Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. & Oliveira, Jader de, 2024, The taxonomic catalog of the Brazilian fauna: biodiversity and geographical distribution of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Brazil, Zoologia (e 24006) 41, pp. 1-28 : 13

Triatoma melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941

Distribution. Bahia and Minas Gerais.

Public health importance. Triatoma melanica is a sylvatic species and was considered to be important in the maintenance of the wild cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi ( Costa 1999) .

Remarks. This species was described by Neiva and Lent (1941) as a subspecies of T.brasiliensis . Lent and Wygodzinsky (1979) recognized it as one of melanic forms of T. brasiliensis . After carefully studying the Triatoma brasiliensis complex using many approaches, including morphology ( Costa et al. 1997a, Freitas et al. 2008), isoenzymes ( Costa et al. 1997b), biological data, and ecological data (Costa et al. 1998), hybrid cross ( Costa et al. 2003), and molecular data ( Monteiro et al. 2004), Costa et al. (2006) elevated it to species status.