Geological Changes of the Americas and their Influence on the Diversification of the Neotropical Kissing Bugs (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Triatominae).
BACKGROUND:The family Reduviidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera), or assassin bugs, is among the most diverse families of the true bugs, with more than 6,000 species.The subfamily Triatominae (kissing bugs) is noteworthy not simply because it is the only subfamily ngetikin.com of the Reduviidae whose members feed on vertebrate blood but particularly becau