Although some texts (8,9) refer to those species as filarial nematodes, the intermediate hosts of Diplotriaenoids (including Serratospiculum) are not
hematophagous arthropods, as occurs with the Filarioidea, (1) but insects, such as grasshoppers and beetles, ingesting eggs from the hosts' droppings.
Catala and Scholfield (1994) recorded similar structures in antennal sensilla of
hematophagous bug Rhodnius (Reduviidae: Triatominae) as highly ornamented pores with 5-6 inner extensions.
Vector transmission, which occurs through the penetration of parasites into the bloodstream through the gateway created in the skin by the bite of the
hematophagous insect, still is the most important route of human infection by T cruzi (1), and is facilitated by the great variety of triatomines in Brazil, which houses sixty-two species, of which thirty are in the domestic environment and ten are epidemiologically important (2).
They are very small dipterans, measuring 4-5 mm, have composite eyes that takes a large part of the head, absent ocelli, long antennae, wings with lancearian shape and with parallel longitudinal veins, abdomen with 10 segments--that from the eighth onwards are modified to form the parts of the genital tract--and have sucking mouthparts, and thus are considered
hematophagous. The biological cycle presents four stages of development: egg, larva (four stages), pupa, and adult.
The Triatominae (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) are obligate
hematophagous insects feeding on different hosts.
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Dioctophyme renale is a parasite of the nematode class with
hematophagous habits (MONTEIRO et al., 2002) that can infect various species, for example dogs, cats, and humans (VENKATRAJAIAH et al., 2014).
The term arboviruses define viruses maintained in nature through biological transmission between a vertebrate host and a
hematophagous arthropod mainly mosquitoes (4).
Desmodus rotundus, the only
hematophagous bat, was recorded in the wet season (1.35%, RA= 0.31 ind/NN) (Table 1).