Triatoma oliveirai (Neiva, Pinto & Lent, 1939)

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 : 13-14

Triatoma oliveirai (Neiva, Pinto & Lent, 1939)

Distribution. Rio Grande do Sul.

Remarks. Triatoma oliveirai is a sylvatic species living amongst rocks and associated with caviid rodents, such as Brazilian guinea pig Cavia aperea ( Galvão, 2014) . This species was redescribed by Barcellos and Grazia (1989) in a study that addressed the redescription with a study of the genitalia.

Triatoma petrocchiae Pinto & Barreto, 1925

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Distribution. Bahia, Ceará, ParaÍba, Pernambuco and Rio Grande do Norte.

Remarks. Triatoma petrocchiae is a sylvatic species living in rocky outcrops in arid conditions and often associated with rock cavy Kerodon rupestris . This species is very similar to T. brasiliensis in morphology, but they showed to be reproductively isolated ( EspÍnola 1971) and genetically different ( Monteiro et al. 1998).