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Rhodnius kissing bug

Rhodnius prolixus
Na ntina ya kombo: It is called the kissing bug because it tends to feed on the area around victims' mouths.1
Esengeli mongangaEbomaka mbala moke, kasi soki esui yo, kende epai ya monganga.
Ba mbinzo & ba insecte KosuaElyaka: Mosuni
Likama mpo na bato: Ya makasiSoki esui yo, kende epai ya monganga. Kokufa ezalaka mpenza mbala moke.

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

Ezalaka na
Northern South America and Central America1
Amerika ya Nord, Amerika ya Sude
Ebandeli
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
Molai
2 cm (0,8 in)3
monene ya momesano ya nyama oyo ekoli
Mbangu ya likolo
pene na 0,5 km/h (0,31 mph)
Na mabele, kokanisa ya pene
Elyaka nini?
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
Solo solo!Foto ya Rhodnius kissing bug
Rhodnius kissing bug. Foto: Annika Lindqvist. CC BY 4.0, iNaturalist.

Ndenge ya koyeba yango

  • 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

Makasi ya venin

Kosua

Venin ebimaka na nzela ya mino na yango ntango esui.

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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

Soki esui

  • Mpo na nsuki ya mbinzo oyo etubaka: longola yango na scotch, sima sukola loposo. Kofrotter loposo te.
  • Mpo na kosuama: sukola mpe pesa malili. Luka lisalisi ya monganga soki moto ayoki nzoto malamu te to soki makila ezali kobima ye pete.

Benga ntango nyonso nimero ya urgence liboso (112, 000, 911). Oyo ezali toli ya lisalisi ya liboso, ezali toli ya monganga te. Makambo ya moboko ya lisalisi ya liboso

Zala na libateli

  • Ata mokolo moko te, simba, kanga to silikisa nyama ya zamba te, ata ya moke, mpe ata soki emonani lokola elali to ekufi.
  • Tika yango esika. Soki okutani na moko, zala kimia, zonga sima malembe mpe tika ekende nzela na yango.
  • Soki moko esui yo: zala kimia, ningana te, benga nimero ya urgence na yo (112, 000, 911) to kende na lopitalo noki. Kanisa ndenge ezalaki, foto esalisaka.

Ezali koluka yo te. Esalelaka venin na yango mpo na kokanga bilei to komibatela, mpe elingaka mingi kobombama. Makambo mosusu mpo na komibatela

Monene na yango boni?

Molai na yango boni?

Rhodnius kissing bug molai pene na 2 cm (0,8 in)Mbuma moko ya loso pene na 7 mm (0,3 in)Pièce ya euro 1 pene na 2,3 cm (0,9 in)
pene na molai ya trombone

Rhodnius kissing bug azali monene boni soki tokokanisi na YO?

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Mbangu na yango boni?

malamu koyeba

Makambo ya solo

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

Mpo na ba expert ya venin

Kombo ya siansi
Rhodnius prolixus
Ebota
Ba mbinzo & ba insecte
Libota
Reduviidae2
Molongo
Hemiptera
Bakontina
Amerika ya Nord, Amerika ya Sude
Likama mpo na bato
3 / 5: Ya makasi3

Esika makambo euti

  1. Rhodnius prolixus (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
  2. Rhodnius prolixus (iNaturalist): bankombo mpe classification.
  3. Venom Wiki: niveau ya likama, monene ya momesano mpe kokanisa ya mbangu ezali ya biso moko. Tala ndenge tolukaka yango: Ndenge tomekaka likama.

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