Relationship between antennal sensilla pattern and habitat in six species of Triatominae

Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz

Al Carbajal De La Fuente¹  S Catalá¹ 

[1] ,CRILARLa Rioja,Argentina

关键词: Chagas disease;    sensilla patterns;    Triatoma infestans;    Triatoma brasiliensis;    Triatoma sordida;    Triatoma pseudomaculata;    Rhodnius neglectus;    Rhodnius nasutus;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0074-02762002000800010

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

In order to determine if habitat similarity is correlated with a similarity of sensilla pattern, we analyzed six species of Triatominae present in two biogeographic regions of Brazil: the "caatinga" and the "cerrado". In broad terms Triatoma infestans (cerrado) and T. brasiliensis (caatinga) are found in human domiciles, T. sordida (cerrado) and T. pseudomaculata (caatinga) colonize peridomestic habitats, and Rhodnius neglectus (cerrado) and R. nasutus (caatinga) inhabit palm tree crowns. The number and distribution of four sensilla types (bristles, thin and thick walled trichoidea, and basiconica) were compared in these species. Sexual dimorphism of sensilla patterns was noted in T. sordida, T. brasiliensis and T. pseudomaculata. A principal component analysis showed three main groups: (i) species that live in the palms, (ii) domiciliated species and (iii) those living in the peridomestic habitat. T. infestans almost exclusively domestic, was placed at the centre of the canonical map and some individuals of other species overlapped there. These results support the idea that the patterns of antennal sensilla are sensitive indicators of adaptive process in Triatominae. We propose that those species that inhabit less stable habitats possess more types of sensilla on the pedicel, and higher number of antennal sensilla.

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