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 vitticeps (Stål, 1859) Fig. 13 Distribution. Bahia , EspÍrito Santo , Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro . Public health importance. Triatoma vitticeps is a sylvatic species associated with rodent and opossum ( Lent and Wygodzinsky 1979 ) and can be found frequently in peridomiciliar and occasionally in domiciliar environments. Although it has high rate of natural infection with T. cruzi ( Dias et al. 1989 , Santos et al. 2006 ) and it is in the domiciliation process ( Moreira and Spata 2002 ), this species has low vector potential, due principally to the relatively long interval between feeding and defecation ( Santos et al. 2006 ). It has been of secondary importance in T. cruzi transmission to man ( Dias et al. 1989 , Santos et al. 2005 ). Remarks. The life cycle ( Gonçalves et al. 1988 ), feeding and defection behaviours ( Gonçalves et al. 2000 , Santos et al. 2006 ), and starvation ability (Gonçalves et al. 1989, Moreira and Spata 2002 ) of this species have been studied under laboratory condition. The experimental parasitism of eggs of this species by Aprostocetus asthenogmus has been reported by Santos et al. (2014) .