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Table 2 Triatomine bug species in Bahia state, Brazil: ecoregional biogeography and municipality-level occurrence frequency

From: TriatoScore: an entomological-risk score for Chagas disease vector control-surveillance

Species or species pair

Habitat class and ecoregiona

Notesb

Municipalities

Dry-semiarid

Savanna-grassland

Moist forest

Ca

ADF

Ce

CRS

BIF

BCF

PIF

Re

Ma

Triatoma infestans

As reported after 2006/since 2000/at any time

8/31/133

Triatoma rubrofasciata

As reported

4

Triatoma juazeirensis/brasiliensisc

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Across the state

269

Triatoma sordida

1

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

Across the state

342

Triatoma pseudomaculata

1

1

1

0

1

0

1

0

0

Across the state

342

Panstrongylus megistus

1

1

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

Across the state

417

Triatoma lenti/bahiensisc

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Chapada Diamantina and southern São Francisco River valley

69

Triatoma vitticeps

0

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

Southern municipalities

51

Triatoma costalimai

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

On the Serra Geral de Goiás

9

Panstrongylus lutzi

1

1

0d

0

0

0

0

0

0

Across the state

277

Rhodnius neglectus

1e

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Western and northern Bahia; some Caatinga populations

152

Rhodnius nasutus

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

North of the lower São Francisco River

15

Triatoma melanica

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Southern São Francisco River valley

22

Triatoma tibiamaculata

0d

0d

0

0d

1

1

1

0

0

Across the state

267

Panstrongylus geniculatus

1

1

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

Across the state

417

Triatoma petrocchiae

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

North of the lower São Francisco River

15

Triatoma sherlocki

1

1

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

Serra da Mangabeira-Serra do Angelim (Jacaré-Verde basin)

24

Triatoma melanocephala

1

1

0

1

1

1

1

0

0

South and east of the São Francisco River

305

Panstrongylus diasi

0

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Across the state

102

Panstrongylus lenti

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

Southern São Francisco River valley and adjacent areas

48

Cavernicola pilosa

1

1

1

0

1

1

1

0

0

Across the state

417

Rhodnius domesticus

0d

0

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

Across the state

206

Psammolestes tertius

1

1

1

0

0

0

0

0

0

Across the state

276

Parabelminus yurupucu

0d

0

0

0

1

1

1

0

0

Across the state

206

  1. aA presence/absence (1/0) matrix (“–”, non-native species that only occur in human-made environments); Ca, Caatinga; ADF, Atlantic dry forest; Ce, Cerrado; CRS, Campos Rupestres savanna; BIF, Bahia interior forest; BCF, Bahia coastal forest; PIF, Pernambuco interior forest; Re, coastal Restingas; Ma, coastal Mangroves
  2. bSee Additional file 2: Figures S1–S24 for municipality-level species-specific occurrence maps
  3. cMerged because most records available did not distinguish the species within each pair; we note that (i) most, if not all, “T. brasiliensis” records from Bahia most likely refer to T. juazeirensis, and (ii) genetic similarity between T. lenti and T. bahiensis suggest they might be conspecific [17]
  4. dPresence records from these ecoregions most likely reflect lack of ecoregional map resolution, with suitable habitat present in some municipalities but not captured by the rough ecoregion-classification map we used (see Fig. 1 and [17]); we assigned a 0.001 value to the “weighted presence” of the species in those municipalities
  5. eLocal R. neglectus populations of northern-central Bahia seem to have adapted to Caatinga environments