the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Heteroptera > member of family Reduviidae > member of subfamily Triatomidae (2)
One of several blood-sucking triatomine bugs of Central and South America, esp. Triatoma infestans.
Of or pertaining to the family Triatomidæ, now usually included in the family Reduviidæ. Also as n., a blood-sucking assassin bug of the family…