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20408957

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-7-7
pubmed:abstractText
Belminus ferroae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) was collected from houses in the localities of San Alberto and Santa Catalina in the municipality of Toledo, Department of Norte de Santander, Colombia. Precipitin tests revealed that the main hosts of B. ferroae are insects belonging to the order Blattodea, whose haemolymph serves as food (89.43%). A low rate of haematophagy was indicated on rodents, dogs and humans (7.32%) and no natural infection with Trypanosoma cruzi was found by either microscopic examination or polymerase chain reaction. The finding of B. ferroae inside houses, feeding primarily on Blattodea with only a minor tendency to feed on vertebrate blood, is indicative of both the evolutionary path from predator to blood-sucker taken by Triatominae and their tendency to adapt from silvatic to domestic habitats.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
1365-2915
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
124-31
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Feeding behaviour of Belminus ferroae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae), a predaceous Triatominae colonizing rural houses in Norte de Santander, Colombia.
pubmed:affiliation
Laboratorio de Entomologia Médica, Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Biomédicas (INBIOM), Universidad de Pamplona, Pamplona, Norte de Santander 1050, Colombia. magaly6@yahoo.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't