The taxonomic catalog of the Brazilian fauna: biodiversity and geographical distribution of Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Brazil Author Galvão, Cleber Laboratório Nacional e Internacional de Referência em Taxonomia de Triatomíneos, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Author Gil-Santana, Hélcio R. Laboratório de Diptera, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Avenida Brasil 4365, 21045 - 900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil. clebergalvao@gmail.com Author Oliveira, Jader de Laboratório de Entomologia em Saúde Pública, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo. & Programa de Pós-GraduaÇão em Ciência, InovaÇão e Tecnologia para a Amazônia, Universidade Federal do Acre. Rodovia BR 364, km 4, 69920 - 900 Rio Branco, AC, Brazil. text Zoologia 2024 e 24006 2024-09-06 41 1 28 https://doi.org/10.1590/s1984-4689.v41.e24006 journal article 10.1590/S1984-4689.v41.e24006 1984-4689 2EB17AC1-901B-483D-9752-3574A681A1 Triatoma melanica Neiva & Lent, 1941 Distribution. Bahia and Minas Gerais . Public health importance. Triatoma melanica is a sylvatic species and was considered to be important in the maintenance of the wild cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi ( Costa 1999 ) . Remarks. This species was described by Neiva and Lent (1941) as a subspecies of T.brasiliensis . Lent and Wygodzinsky (1979) recognized it as one of melanic forms of T. brasiliensis . After carefully studying the Triatoma brasiliensis complex using many approaches, including morphology ( Costa et al. 1997a , Freitas et al. 2008 ), isoenzymes ( Costa et al. 1997b ), biological data, and ecological data (Costa et al. 1998), hybrid cross ( Costa et al. 2003 ), and molecular data ( Monteiro et al. 2004 ), Costa et al. (2006) elevated it to species status.