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Triatomine bug

Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus

Photo by Juan DiTrani
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

Triatoma bugs can be vectors of Chagas desease, a very important desease in tropics

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It is Panstrongylus rufotuberculatus
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PublishedJune 11, 2011

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