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Rhodnius kissing bug

Rhodnius prolixus
Ku linnya: It is called the kissing bug because it tends to feed on the area around victims' mouths.1
Kyetaaga omusawoTekitera kutta, naye okulumwa kwetaaga omusawo.
Ebisaanyi n'ebiwuka KirumaKirya: Ennyama
Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

The Rhodnius kissing bug is a blood-feeding insect that feeds on the skin around people's mouths while they sleep. It lives in northern South America and Central America, and it matters because it spreads the parasite that causes Chagas disease.1

Kibeera mu
Northern South America and Central America1
Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono, Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo
Awaka
Its wild populations are mainly in savanna and foothills, at altitudes of 500 to 1,500 metres, and are closely linked to palm trees. In Central America it lives only in houses and other buildings near people.1
Obuwanvu
2 cm (0,8 in)3
obunene obwa bulijjo obw'ensolo enkulu
Embiro ezisinga
nga 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)
Ku lukalu, kuteebereza bwokka
Kirya ki?
It feeds on the blood of its hosts, which include birds, rodents, marsupials, sloths and reptiles, as well as people. It takes one large blood meal at each larval stage.1
Ddala!Ekifaananyi kya Rhodnius kissing bug
Rhodnius kissing bug. Ekifaananyi: Annika Lindqvist. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Engeri y'okukitegeera

  • Feeds on blood, usually from the area around a sleeping person's mouth1
  • Lives in palm tree habitats in the wild1
  • Found in houses in Central America1

Amaanyi g'obusagwa

Kiruma

Obusagwa buyita mu mannyo gaakyo amawanvu (fangs) oba mu mannyo amalala nga kiruma.

Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?

Akabi eri abantu: Kya maanyiOkulumwa kwetaaga omusawo. Okufa kubaawo kitono nnyo.

It is the main carrier of the parasite that causes Chagas disease in northern South America, and the only carrier in Central America. The parasite is passed in the bug's faeces straight after a blood meal. People can become infected when they scratch the bite and rub the faeces into it, through a blood transfusion, or by eating food contaminated with the bug's faeces.1

Bwe kiruma

  • Ku byoya by'ebisaanyi ebibojja: bijjeeko ne tteepu ekwata, oluvannyuma naaza olususu. Tokolokota.
  • Ku kulumwa: naaza era nyogoza. Funa obuyambi bw'abasawo singa omuntu awulira bubi oba omusaayi gumuvaamu mangu.

Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi

Weekuume

  • Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
  • Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
  • Bw'emu ekuluma: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.

Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma

Wa mu nsi?

AfirikaAsiyaBulaayaAmerika ey'ObukiikakkonoAmerika ey'ObukiikaddyoAwusitureeliya ne Oseyaniya

Kinene kyenkana wa?

Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?

Rhodnius kissing bug kiwanvu nga 2 cm (0,8 in)Empeke y'omuceere nga 7 mm (0,3 in)Ekinusu kya yuro 1 nga 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
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Ebituufu

1

Its saliva contains lipocalins, which bind the chemical serotonin. This helps stop the host's blood vessels from narrowing while the bug feeds.1

2

Sir Vincent Wigglesworth used this bug to study insect hormones. He showed that removing the head during a larval stage makes the insect develop into an adult early.1

3

Specimens from Venezuela escaped from a research laboratory in San Salvador in 1915 and then spread through Central America, probably helped by travellers carrying them.1

4

Its wild populations have been linked to the transfer of transposons, which are pieces of DNA that move around, between the bug and some of its hosts, such as squirrel monkeys and opossums.1

5

The insect goes through five larval stages, and each one ends in a moult about 12 to 15 days after a large blood meal.1

Ku bakugu mu busagwa

Erinnya erya ssaayansi
Rhodnius prolixus
Ekibinja
Ebisaanyi n'ebiwuka
Amaka
Reduviidae2
Ensengeka
Hemiptera
Ssemazinga
Amerika ey'Obukiikakkono, Amerika ey'Obukiikaddyo
Akabi eri abantu
3 / 5: Kya maanyi3

Ebituufu we biva

  1. Rhodnius prolixus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Rhodnius prolixus (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
  3. Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.

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